Re: 4GB memory and Intel Dual-Core system

[Vladimir Lazarenko <vlad@lazarenko.net>]

>  > AFAIK, No. AMD and Intel will always do the same thing until we all move to
>  > real IA64.
>
> Somehow, I doubt AMD see it that way :-)
>
> Some boards at least have a BIOS option to support 'memory hoisting'
> to map the 'lost' memory above the 4G address space.
>
> I suspect a lot of the lower-end (and older) boards however don't have
> this option, as they were not tested with 4GB.

I have Tyan k8e which supports memory remapping. Question, however, will 
that work with i686-based kernel? Or do we have to switch to x86_64?

Vlad

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