Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 11:42:10 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: more than 4GB in opteron board running i386 version of 5.3/5.4 Message-ID: <20050520184210.GA53630@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <846F9624-BC67-4058-A688-7359B7485EF3@shire.net> References: <846F9624-BC67-4058-A688-7359B7485EF3@shire.net>
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--RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 12:19:45PM -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > Just want to confirm that FreeBSD 5.3/5.4 can access and use more =20 > than 4GB of RAM in a Tyan Opteron MB (in this case an S2882) running =20 > the i386 version of FreeBSD. I don't know about the particular motherboard, but you need to enable PAE in your kernel. Not all drivers work with PAE, so you'll need to do some research to check your hardware compatibility. Kris --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCji+BWry0BWjoQKURAu/oAJ9i29Smzh2ISA5GrD6HGHqsxH3APQCffsJI NzxnDFMcY3O8UyE4zTVfT28= =/gn0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1--
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