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Date:      Fri, 22 Jun 2001 15:23:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 machdep.c
Message-ID:  <20010622152251.N21527-100000@wonky.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010622153855.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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> On 22-Jun-01 Matthew Jacob wrote:
> >
> > Hmm- can you have more than 4GB of memory on an i386?
>
> Yes, you can have up to 64gb on PPro's or later (at least, the CPU's support a
> 36-bit physical address space) but we don't currently support the extensions so
> we can't use more than 4 anyways.
>
> > I also notice that it's an int on alpha too. That's a very big bug.
>
> Perhaps it should be a u_long on the alpha?

Probably. I'll change it and see what breaks.

-matt



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