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Date:      Thu, 2 Aug 2001 10:44:04 -0300 (BRST)
From:      Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To:        Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, craig <craiglei@pasia.com.cn>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0108021043350.5582-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0108020937090.20844-100000@rac2.wam.umd.edu>

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On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote:

> Also, the PIII CAN'T natively support more than 4GB of ram. If a
> particular PIII motherboard supports this, then it's using some
> kind of wierd chipset that allows this to happen. 4GB is the
> limit with a 32 bit chip I believe; and the PIII is a 32-bit
> chip.

The Xeon series have 32 bits of virtual address space
and 36 bits of physical address space.

Rik
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