Re: [vox-tech] Physical Memory vs. Reported Memory

To: voxMAPS-tech@franz.mother.com
Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Physical Memory vs. Reported Memory
From: "Mark K. Kim" <markslist@cbrMAPSeak.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 22:58:37 -0700 (PDT)
In-reply-to: <20010710224007.B17241@houseag.com>
Reply-to: vox-tech@MAPSfranz.mother.com
Sender: owner-vox-tech@franz.motMAPSher.com

On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Henry House wrote:

> 1. Memory size detection by the kernel is not reliable on i386
>    architectures above 64Mb. 
> 
> 2. The GRUB bootloader can generally detect the memory size reliably
>    and will pass the size it finds to the kernel!
> 
> 3. The hardware memory check is done by the BIOS, well before the kernel
>    loads, so Linux knows nothing about it.

Then one can ask: How does Windows do it and why can't we do the same?

-Mark

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