Matt Harvey m.j.harvey@ucl.ac.uk 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