Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 20:13:30 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>, Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org>, "janb@cs.utep.edu" <janb@cs.utep.edu>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <daniel.sobral@tcoip.com.br>, Stefan Molnar <stefan@csudsu.com>, Marek Gorka <marek.gorka@tpi.pl>, "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.3 and 6G RAM Message-ID: <200107210313.f6L3DVd03494@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 21 Jul 2001 15:03:40 %2B1200." <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107211500210.22037-100000@vimfuego.saarinen.org>
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> On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Mike Smith wrote:
>
> > "fully 64-bit" meaning what?
>
> Meaning if you need large memory configurations.
Yes, but what is "fully 64-bit"? Are you talking about software?
Hardware? You're being very untechnical.
> > PAE has lots of advantages in the right context.
>
> What would those be? I guess it's cheaper, you can run existing 32-bit
> apps, but other than that, I can't quite see why it's a good solution.
Er, because it's the only way to handle > 4GB of physical memory on an
IA32 system.
If by "fully 64-bit" you mean "64-bit physical and virtual addresses on
IA32", then you need to look at the "32" bit in "IA32" again.
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