real memory falsely reports 8G, BIOS & avail memory reports 1G

[John Baldwin]

On Monday, August 09, 2010 8:13:03 am Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> Hi hackers at freebsd.org
> A laptop here emits a puzzlingly dmesg to both 8.1-RC2 & 8.1-RELEASE:
> 	real memory  = 8572108800 (8175 MB)
> 	avail memory = 1018789888 (971 MB)
> BIOS reckons it has 1G. No panel to unscrew to inspect memory. 
> I don't beleive 8G.
> 
> If this is a bug in FreeBSD detect code ?
> I am ready to run test kernel patches againt 8.1-RELEASE
> & report back if anyone has code.
> (I have room to install a current too if necessary)
> 
> Full dmesg here:
> http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/hardware/laptops/novatech-8355/dmesg/
> 
> Cheers,
> Julian

Hmm, do you have dmidecode output?

-- 
John Baldwin