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2015 Nov 27
2
Only 2.5G of RAM available when syslinux64.efi boots 32-bit linux 686-pae
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Ady via Syslinux <syslinux at zytor.com> wrote:
> It saddens (me)
> C'mon; really?
As you asked.
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-Gene
2015 Nov 27
0
Only 2.5G of RAM available when syslinux64.efi boots 32-bit linux 686-pae
...TUB code.
Please note that the case presented in this email thread makes reference
to a "3.6" 32-bit PAE kernel, while the current latest EFI handover
protocol got updated after that, in later kernel versions (at least
kernel v.3.8).
Quote:
"Protocol 2.12: (Kernel 3.8) Added the xloadflags field and extension
fields to struct boot_params for loading bzImage and ramdisk above 4G in
64bit."
Question for (kernel) developers: Could APPENDing the "add_efi_memmap"
kernel option be involved in allowing the whole RAM to be seen by a
32-bit PAE kernel (booted by syslinux.e...