On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 04:48:50PM +0530, Vaibhav Sharma wrote: > The memory map from efi is also defined for locations more than that > which is available (I had 6GB of RAM on the machine, but the memory > map covered addresses more than 6GB). I could not understand why it > does so...
The memory in the machine isn't necessarily contiguous. For example, an hp zx1 machine would map 6GB of memory at 0-1GB then 257-260GB, then 4-6GB -- "Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." -- Mark Twain - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
