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From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
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Subject: Re: max memory on Alpha?
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> On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 03:49:17PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > You could hack alpha_init() where it goes through the memory clusters and
> > > stop it from using any cluster which starts too high.
> > > 
> > 
> > Heh. I was just going to suggest that... that's what I did for the NetBSD port
> > at first.
> 
> Does this mean NetBSD can do > 2Gb?

Uh, no...should, but not proven yet either.. this meant that until I fixed the
dwlpx implementation there, stuff over 1GB was broken.

-matt




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