Matt Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I have an Opteron machine based on the Tyan K8W S2885 mainboard which is > equipped with 8GB of RAM (8x1GB DIMM). The BIOS is mapping the PCI/AGP > devices into the address space immediately below 4GB and so > consequently, I am losing access to nearly an entire 1GB of RAM. I've > spoken to Tyan about this and they acknowledged that it it is principle > possible for the BIOS to remap the DIMM presently located at 3GB to 9GB > but that they have no intention of including this option in their BIOS > as it "penalizes 32-bit OS's that cannot use more than 4GB." > > So the question to the panel is: Will LinuxBIOS solve this problem for > me? The task this machine was purchased for really does require as much > RAM as possible.
At the present moment that is not implemented by LinuxBIOS. It is something I would like to work on, but it has not been a priority yet. I think I could do it a day or two a week with testing etc. There are a couple of ways LinuxBIOS could solve this problem. 1) You have the code so you can implement that, so you are not helpless. 2) You can wait until I get around to implementing for other reasons. 3) You can pay one of the vendors doing LinuxBIOS to fix it for you. <plug> Linux Networx </plug> Eric _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
