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From: Graham Murray <graham@gmurray.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Acer Core2Duo only sees 3G of RAM
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Drew <drew.kay@gmail.com> writes:

> Isn't the memory hole above 3GB present even in the 64bit systems?
> Something about the MMIO reservations for the PCI bus taking up the
> top gig of the first four Gigs?

I do not know. What I do know is that the system I am using here at home
has 6GB RAM, the one I use at work has 8GB, and I have seen a system
with 12GB all running Gentoo x86 (32 bit) and all of which report the
full amount of RAM as available.