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Date:      Wed, 17 Aug 2005 01:58:22 +0200
From:      Daniel Rock <freebsd@deadcafe.de>
To:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4 GB RAM showing up as 3, BIOS memory hole and all that
Message-ID:  <43027D9E.7000602@deadcafe.de>
In-Reply-To: <43020F08.6070108@samsco.org>
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Scott Long schrieb:
> AMD puts the memory controller into the CPU instead of in the
 > PCI host bridge, so it's much harder to have the two work together
 > to do the remapping.  I believe that there are some Opteron
 > systems that can do this, though.

The gory details are described in AMD's Technical Documentation #26094 (BIOS 
and Kernel Developer's Guide)

http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/26094.PDF

in section 3.5.8.


Daniel



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