Real and available memory?

[Julian H. Stacey]

Krassimir Slavchev wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have Vortex86-6082 with 128Mb AMI bios.
> 
> Why the kernel reports only 80 MB available memory?
> Is this related to BIOS or kernel settings?
> 
> dmesg output:
> 
> Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project.
> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
>         The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Wed Jul 26 10:09:06 EEST 2006
>     root at krassi:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TINYBSD
> Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
> CPU: Pentium (166.61-MHz 586-class CPU)
>   Origin = "SiS SiS SiS "  Id = 0x505
> real memory  = 125829120 (120 MB)
> avail memory = 84332544 (80 MB)
> kbd1 at kbdmux0
> ...


Does the mboard BIOS on monitor at boot recognise all 128 M ? 

I've seen boards that only recognised 1/4 of the SIM size.
80 seems a bit of an odd (non hex) number though.

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