Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

From: John Baldwin (jhb_at_FreeBSD.org)
Date: 03/31/05

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    Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:03:16 -0500
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    On Mar 31, 2005, at 1:00 AM, Jon Noack wrote:
    > 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
    >
    > 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?

    It's part if ACPI 1.0 as well. Trust me, I have machines built before
    ACPI 2.0 was defined that have MADTs. :)

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