On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 09:36:05AM -0700, Grant Grundler wrote: > If the machine is suppose to support a 32-bit OS, then yeah, it's a > BIOS bug. It all depends on who defines the support matrix. Well, maybe. I mean, the CPUs all have PAE (in 32-bit mode) and thus can use 36-bit physical addressing these days (or more in the case of amd chips). > The other way is to reassign "invalid" resources (above 4GB) with > "valid" ones (below 4GB). I suspect windows is doing this and I'd > rather see linux take this route as well if possible. Hrm, it may be doing this. I wonder how that works though with 4GB's of RAM installed? I originally thought Windows probably allowed the larger addresses and use PAE but that might not be the case at all. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Sat Feb 18 06:11:14 2006
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