4 GB RAM showing up as 3, BIOS memory hole and all that

Vivek Khera vivek at khera.org
Thu Aug 18 15:12:59 GMT 2005


On Aug 17, 2005, at 10:36 AM, Martin Nilsson wrote:

> The E stepping Opteron can remap memory. The earlier versions can't.
>

How does one tell the stepping is E?  My dmesg.boot says "Id = 0xf5a   
Stepping = 10" on my 246 CPUs.

Vivek Khera, Ph.D.
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