Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 06:28:41 GMT From: "eric.cho" <eric.cho@gigabyte.com.tw> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: i386/79779: If system memory is above 4GB, one parts of memory will be ignored. Message-ID: <200504110628.j3B6Sfpm047715@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200504110630.j3B6USCH061668@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 79779
>Category: i386
>Synopsis: If system memory is above 4GB, one parts of memory will be ignored.
>Confidential: no
>Severity: critical
>Priority: high
>Responsible: freebsd-i386
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Apr 11 06:30:28 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: eric.cho
>Release:
>Organization:
Gigabyte Technology
>Environment:
FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 16 22:16:53 GMT 2003 rot@hollin.btc.adaptect.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>Description:
1.Insert 4GB memory in mother board
2.Boot to FreeBSD
3.System will display two special prompts "BIOS 635kB/3143552kB available memory" and "1048576kB of memory above 4GB ignored" during I/O init.
4.After enter OS, we check the real/available memory by "dmesg command", the size is about 3GB.
>How-To-Repeat:
Please refer to above
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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