Subject: Re: skiping memory segments that end past > 0x100000000ULL
To: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@netbsd.org>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/23/2006 21:13:13
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 10:06:12PM +0100, Frank van der Linden wrote:
> 
> That means you have physical memory above 4G.. NetBSD/i386 can't handle
> that.

Quite possibly there is a 'memory hole' at about 3.5GB [1] (to allow space
for 32bit PCI devices to be given memeory address space.
The BIOS could then be mapping the last of your memory at 4GB.

	David

[1] or even at 3GB from a guess as to the meaning of the numbers.

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk