According to Kenneth Stephen: While burning my CPU.
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> Gevaerts Frank wrote:
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> > On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Norbert Bottlaender-Prier wrote:
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> > > Add a warning : NEVER indicate MORE ram than you really have.
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> > And even a bit less, to account for the memory that the BIOS reserves. (ie
> > if you have 128M, tell the system it's 127M). The bios usually needs a few
> > 100 K's.
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> I have never heard of this before. I would imagine that the kernel is aware of the
> amount of memory reserved for BIOS and would subtract this out to get the correct
> value. Is your statement documented somewhere, oris it speculation on your part?
With i386 family machines the BIOS grabs 1 page of memory, thats 4k.
As to other machines ie, alpha's there might be the need to deduct more as
i think thier page size is more than 4k.
Ken, your line wrap is way to long.
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> Kenneth
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