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64M again



Good `date`!

I know it looks like a silly FAQ question, but it isn't:
Does anybody know, what happens with Linux detection of above 64M memory?
I know about "appemd=" solution, but it is not what I want - I want it to
know the memory size by itself. I heard that later kernels know to detect
memory above 64M, but I never had success with it. All installations that
I've done on new machines had to have that "append=" kludge. Now, does
anybody know what is the status of the matter now? Is there something that
allows kernel to reliably detect full memory size, and if so - where is
it? And if not - does anybody know why? Windows can do it, so it's doable,
then why a couple of years passed and it's still not there?
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