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Date:      Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:35:22 +0200
From:      Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: large pages (amd64)
Message-ID:  <20090629003522.GA18543@britannica.bec.de>
In-Reply-To: <4A480760.50705@hoyletech.com>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906281933580.1809@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <4A480760.50705@hoyletech.com>

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On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 08:14:24PM -0400, Nathanael Hoyle wrote:
> Just to be clear, since you say i386 (I presume you mean architecture),  
> I believe the Physical Address Extensions which allowed 2MB Page Size  
> bit to be set was introduced with Pentium Pro. Processors prior to this  
> were limited to standard 4KB pages.

PSE != PAE != PSE36. Pentium Pro sounds about right though.

Joerg



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