Tim Anderson wrote:
"CBFalconer" wrote in message

All of this deals with the physical addresses, not the virtual
addresses that the software sees.

Thanks Chuck. Can you expand on that last remark? How difficult
would it be to make this wasted RAM available to the OS? For the
board deisgner, that is. I'm not expecting any workaround for the
motherboard I'm using.

If you don't install memory in a physical area it isn't wasted.
Virtual memory systems involve remapping memory anyhow, so the
software doesn't see any gaps. There is no real problem.

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