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Date:      Fri, 22 Jun 2001 15:26:28 -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:   D'oh!
Message-ID:  <20010622152459.X21527-100000@wonky.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010622152251.N21527-100000@wonky.feral.com>

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On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Matthew Jacob wrote:

>
> >
> > 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.


Aghh.... internally to the kernel physmem is in units of pages for alpha or
the oldie moldy 'clicks' for i386. What *was* I thinking?  It's really just
the sysctl representation, no?

-matt



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