On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:08:30 -0400, Charles Kroeger wrote: > I was looking over a dmesg output and I noticed a message that said I > would save 64MB of RAM if I enabled the IOMMU option in the bios. > > I'm using an ASUS M4A79XTD EVO board with 8GB of RAM so maybe freeing up > 64MB of RAM isn't that big of a deal; however, I had a look in the bios > setup and saw nothing that pertained to IOMMU to enable. > > The BIOS is an 8MB Flash ROM, AMI BIOS PnP etc. > > Can anyone eleborate on this message in dmesg?
Not sure if this has something to do with some BIOS option that allow "memmory remapping" :-? There is an Ubuntu forum thread that may help a bit: *** "Your BIOS doesn't leave a aperture memory hole" / "This costs you 64 MB of RAM" http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1018854&highlight=enable+iommu+option+bios *** Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.03.18.15.58...@gmail.com
