On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Konstantin Zhidkov wrote: > 1. Is there a way to tell the kernel that A0000-FFFFF region is RAM?
yes, is it really absolutely ram? This can be done. > 2. How does LinuxBIOS reports RAM size to the kernel? Northsouthbridge > driver reports 4MB RAM. Then LinuxBIOS displays "totalram: 4M". Then > the kernel reports 16MB. Currently I fixed this by adding "mem=" > parameter to the kernel command line, but I want to detect amount of > memory dynamically (it may be extended to 8MB on future boards). Hmm. If linuxbios says 4M, then I think it reports 4M to the kernel. Is the kernel doing something strange? ron
