interpret this BIOS
Alan Cox
alan at redhat.com
Mon May 17 18:38:29 UTC 2004
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 12:22:01PM -0600, reg at dwf.com wrote:
> Perhaps you can be a bit more specific.
> The system in fact has a 512MB chip and a 256MB chip for a total of 768/775Mb
> You seem to show that this is shown in BIOS as a single entry, rather
> than an entry for each stick, is that true?
Yes. The memory is described in terms of start/end address of each block
not of each chip
> But if I believe that, then 0x2fffc000 = 805289984 which is wrong for the size.
That looks about right. Remember its in 1024's and that comes out at
just under 768Mb. A small amount has ben borrowed by the bios
> So, back to my initial question: How do I interpret this stuff?
[Start] [End] [Usage]
More information about the fedora-test-list
mailing list