Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:28:16 +0200 | From | Wojciech Kromer <> | Subject | Re: Intel-Quad on GA-P35-S3 motherboard with 4*2GB |
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> >> It's Intel-quad, so there are 4 CPUs. >> > > Weird. The message about the MTRR on all the CPUs not maching sound > like a strange bios bug. Are you running the latest bios version? > > See the story below. > Looks to match the MTRR setup at least. So how much ram does the kernel > actually want to use? > > a)With mem=8GB parameter I had:
#free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 6473 474 5999 0 29 278
b) Without mem=8GM system slows down while booting and sometimes restart...
==== So the story begins ===========================
It's strange GIGABYTE missinformation, but: - my board came with F2 release - after detecting memory problem, I've upgraded it to F4 (latest at this moment) - next day came with F5 release , there was only one info: "Fix PS2 keyboard compatibility issues", so I decided *not* to upgrade BIOS
But yesterday I've finally upgraded to F5 release. ... and here is *surrprise*: MTRR changed to:
#cat /proc/mtrr reg00: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size=4096MB: write-back, count=1 reg01: base=0xc0000000 (3072MB), size=1024MB: uncachable, count=1 reg02: base=0xa0000000 (2560MB), size= 512MB: uncachable, count=1 reg03: base=0x100000000 (4096MB), size=4096MB: write-back, count=1 reg04: base=0x200000000 (8192MB), size=2048MB: write-back, count=1 reg05: base=0x260000000 (9728MB), size= 512MB: uncachable, count=1 reg06: base=0x9ff00000 (2559MB), size= 1MB: write-through, count=1
Now there are no complains about MTRR in dmesg.
E820 seems to be the same:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000009fee0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000009fee0000 - 000000009fee3000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 000000009fee3000 - 000000009fef0000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 000000009fef0000 - 000000009ff00000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000c0000000 - 00000000c4000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 0000000260000000 (usable)
And finally I have my 8GB working without any kernel parameter,
# free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 7988 1120 6868 0 88 612
Now i need to rerun memory tests. Thank you for helping me with this stuff.
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