Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3156 mails)

[Frank Fiene <ffiene@xxxxxxxx>]

On Samstag 01 Dezember 2007, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * Frank Fiene <ffiene@xxxxxxxx> [11-30-07 12:40]:
> > No, there is no option in BIOS to "enable" complete 4GB. It is a
> > Lenovo Thinkpad Z61p and with PAE-enabled (standard-SUSE) 32bit
> > kernel and 64bit kernel it doesn't recognize my memory! Running
> > openSUSE-10.3!
>
> I may be wrong, but I believe that 32bit cannot.
>
> My BIOS does not have an "enable" for "complete 4GB", it has:
>
> H/W memory hole Remapping
> This field enables hardware to remap the physical memory to the
> addresses higher than 00E0.  (This item only activates in 64-bit OS)
> Setting options: [Disabled],[Enabled].
>
> S/W memory hole Remapping
> This field enables software to remap the physical memory to the
> address higher than 00E0. (This item only activates in 64-bit OS)
> Setting options: [Disabled],[Enabled].

It doesn't matter how you call this! ;-)

Yes, i know. but Lenovos BIOS doesn't have this memory hole remapping.
This memory hole is because of PCI BUS mapped in the area above 3GB.

Frank
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