[Fedora-xen] Memory in xen kernel < physical memory

Ben bench at silentmedia.com
Wed Feb 22 20:36:17 UTC 2006


Well, I'm using the Epox 9NPA+ ultra board, and while I did have to  
turn on the oh-so-helpfully undocumented "s/w memory hole remapping"  
feature in the bios, doing so allowed my FC4 kernel to see all 4GB of  
memory.

On Feb 22, 2006, at 12:31 PM, Steven Pritchard wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 12:28:09PM -0800, Ben wrote:
>> I thought PAE was only for 32 bit machine? I've got a 64-bit opteron
>> and also noticed that the FC5t3 hypervisor kernel doesn't show all
>> 4GB of my RAM.
>
> A lot of Athlon64 boards only seem to support 3.5GB, like the old
> Athlon MP boards.  I haven't every been given a good reason why...
>
> Steve
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