[Gllug] Dell M65 Precision with 4G running Debian amd64

lesleyb at herlug.org.uk lesleyb at herlug.org.uk
Sat Jul 11 15:52:49 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 10:37:23PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 06:16:00PM +0100, lesleyb at herlug.org.uk wrote:
> > I've installed 2x2GB on my Dell M65 Precision laptop as well as
> > upgrading to Debian Lenny amd64.
> >
> > All's going jolly well except that free reports total memory of
> > 3354352k or 3.2 GB i.e. there's a missing 0.8GB.
> 
> Is it really missing?  I previously posted about this:
> 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.london.gllug/40361
> 
> If you want to post your e820 maps here I'm sure someone will decode
> them.
 
 dmesg | grep e820
 [    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable)
 [    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 [    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000cfe81400 (usable)
 [    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000cfe81400 - 00000000d0000000 (reserved)
 [    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000f0000000 - 00000000f4007000 (reserved)
 [    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000f4008000 - 00000000f400c000 (reserved)
 [    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
 [    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000fed20000 - 00000000feda0000 (reserved)
 [    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee10000 (reserved)
 [    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)

 I have no idea what that is trying to tell me but I am interested in learning!

 Regards

 L.
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