Re: [coreboot] PAE status/ 8Gb of ram on X60

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Charles,

Am Dienstag, den 24.06.2014, 17:53 -0400 schrieb Charles Devereaux:
> I am wondering if there any limitation with coreboot on using say 2x
> 4Gb RAM sticks and a linux kernel with PAE enabled?

as far as I know, the Intel 945 chipset has a hard limit of a total 4 GB
RAM.
> Is anyone using such a setup?

No that I know of. I only heard of 4 GB setups, where also not all 4 GB
can be used.

[…]

Thanks,

Paul

PAE status/ 8Gb of ram on X60

[Charles Devereaux]

Hello

So I took 2x 4Gb, and I do confirm that only ~3Gb can be used.

Thanks

On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 7:10 AM, Paul Menzel <
[e-mail]> wrote:
> Dear Charles,
>
> Am Dienstag, den 24.06.2014, 17:53 -0400 schrieb Charles Devereaux:
> > I am wondering if there any limitation with coreboot on using say 2x
> > 4Gb RAM sticks and a linux kernel with PAE enabled?
>
> as far as I know, the Intel 945 chipset has a hard limit of a total 4 GB
> RAM.
> > Is anyone using such a setup?
>
> No that I know of. I only heard of 4 GB setups, where also not all 4 GB
> can be used.
>
> […]
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul