Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 09:54:52 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@flat.berklix.net> To: Krassimir Slavchev <krassi@bulinfo.net> Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Real and available memory? Message-ID: <200608090754.k797sqnH085387@fire.jhs.private> In-Reply-To: Message from Krassimir Slavchev <krassi@bulinfo.net> of "Wed, 09 Aug 2006 10:29:10 %2B0300." <44D98EC6.70307@bulinfo.net>
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Krassimir Slavchev wrote: > Hello, > > I have Vortex86-6082 with 128Mb AMI bios. > > Why the kernel reports only 80 MB available memory? > Is this related to BIOS or kernel settings? > > dmesg output: > > Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project. > Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 > The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. > FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Wed Jul 26 10:09:06 EEST 2006 > root@krassi:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TINYBSD > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 > CPU: Pentium (166.61-MHz 586-class CPU) > Origin = "SiS SiS SiS " Id = 0x505 > real memory = 125829120 (120 MB) > avail memory = 84332544 (80 MB) > kbd1 at kbdmux0 > ... Does the mboard BIOS on monitor at boot recognise all 128 M ? I've seen boards that only recognised 1/4 of the SIM size. 80 seems a bit of an odd (non hex) number though. -- Julian Stacey. Consultant Unix Net & Sys. Eng., Munich. http://berklix.com Mail in Ascii, HTML=spam. Ihr Rauch = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz.
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