On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 05:14:54PM -0400, John Hughes wrote: > On Tuesday 31 July 2001 01:23, Olaf Hering wrote: > > > Just got a 512mb memmory module, installed it, and booted. Well, > > > everything seems to be ok....except that linux only sees 510mb > > > total...when it should be 640mb. If someone wants any info from iBook2, > > > just let me know off list...or on I guess, and I will send whatever you > > > want. > > > > > > btw-2.4.7benh kernel from about a week ago or so. > > > > There is a highmem option in "general options", enable it and tell us > > how it works. > > I'll try it, but I was under the impression that the himem setting was for > >2gb ram. I have several machine with >512mb that don't have this problem. I > will recompile anyways just to see though.
That ammount of 'lowmem' is arch-dependant. We currently limit it to 512mb, tho this could be increased sometime. (It was 768 and then lowered for some reason). On x86 the 'lowmem' limit is ~960MB. -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
