LinuxBIOS and 4G+ memory

[Stefan Reinauer]

Hi,

does LinuxBIOS on Opteron cleanly handle 4+G of memory? I have a machine
with 4G here for the first time, but I seem to end up with some of the
memory missing.

[..]
totalram: 3840M

How would Linux clear ECC memory >4G in this case? using PAE? Long mode
is not available yet..

Stefan

Stefan Reinauer  writes:
> Hi,
>
> does LinuxBIOS on Opteron cleanly handle 4+G of memory? I have a machine
> with 4G here for the first time, but I seem to end up with some of the
> memory missing.
>
> [..]
> totalram: 3840M
>
> How would Linux clear ECC memory >4G in this case? using PAE? Long mode
> is not available yet..

Read the code it is handled for the Opteron.  We currently make the memory
hole for pci devices overly large but otherwise everything works well.

Eric