Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey (grog_at_FreeBSD.org)
Date: 03/31/05

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    Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:48:11 +0930
To: Jon Noack <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu>

    On Thursday, 31 March 2005 at 0:00:22 -0600, Jon Noack wrote:
    > On 03/30/05 23:49, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
    >> Here's the complete output of acpidump -t, anyway:
    >>
    >> <snip acpidump output>
    >>
    >> Since I don't know anything about ACPI, this doesn't say too much to
    >> me. Suggestions welcome. If the APIC section is the MADT, it looks
    >> as if we should update the docco.
    >
    > My limited research (as in, Google) shows that the MADT was defined as
    > part of ACPI 2.0:
    > http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/64bit/IA64_ACPI.mspx

    Thanks for the link.

    > According to your previous link the motherboard specs, it supports
    > both ACPI 1.0A and 2.0. Perhaps there is a BIOS knob to toggle
    > between the two?

    I've taken a look, but I can't find anything.

    Greg 

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