Messages in this thread | | | From | "Ulrich Windl" <> | Date | Thu, 18 Apr 1996 08:18:41 +0200 | Subject | Re: 16 MB -> 32 MB, a memory problem resolved! |
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On 17 Apr 96 at 3:09, Bryn Paul Arnold Jones wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Apr 1996, Andrew E. Mileski wrote: > > 32M-384k is _NORMAL_ and the point I was trying to make. > > The 384k is reserved by the motherboard, and is damned near > > impossible to access (it varies from board to board). > > It is used for stuff like caching the BIOS and VGA ROMs > > so that it doesn't go completely to waste. If you disable > > caching you _still_ don't get the memory back either. > > > > -- Andrew E. Mileski -- > It's waisted in Linux, as it doesn't use the bios (well some parts, but > very little, eg apm ....) > If you can turn BIOS shadowing, and video shadowing off in the BIOS > setup ....
PCI BIOSes are always shadowed. You possibly don't get more RAM.
P.S. I'm receiving messages from linux-kernel exactly twice these days... > > Bryn > -- Ulrich
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