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Re: Physical address returned by IODMACommand exceeds hw.memsize

Subject: Re: Physical address returned by IODMACommand exceeds hw.memsize
From: Michael Smith <email@hidden>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 02:04:09 -0800

On Nov 29, 2010, at 12:49 AM, Maxim Zhuravlev wrote:

Well, everything works just fine, so I'm just curious, where does this
extra memory come from?

There is no guarantee that physical memory is contiguous from zero.

hw.memsize is how many bytes of memory there are, not the address one off the end of the highest memory byte...

= Mike

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