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Date:      Thu, 02 Oct 2003 15:34:27 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Tom <tom@sdf.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PAE related crash
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20031002153427.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20031002121720.K82361@light.sdf.com>

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On 02-Oct-2003 Tom wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Hendrik Scholz wrote:
> 
>> Hi!
>>
>> I've just installed 5.1-RELEASE (updated to -current) on a
>> Dual Opteron 1.4 with 6GB memory installed (MSI K8D Master-F).
>> Without 'options PAE' the system works fine (beside the 'missing' 2GB).
> ...
> 
>   Does PAE even work on non-Intel CPUs?  I thought it was Intel specific.

It will work if the feature bit is set in the cpuid output.
Note that you can't use the ACPI module with PAE though.

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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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