From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 2 10:28:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from bdr-xcon.matchlogic.com (mail.matchlogic.com [205.216.147.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0775737B403 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 10:28:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crandall@matchlogic.com) Received: by mail.matchlogic.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 11:28:34 -0600 Message-ID: <5FE9B713CCCDD311A03400508B8B30130828F234@bdr-xcln.corp.matchlogic.com> From: Charles Randall To: "'tlambert2@mindspring.com'" , Rik van Riel Cc: craig , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: How to visit physical memory above 4G? Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 11:26:31 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: Terry Lambert [mailto:tlambert2@mindspring.com] >I have yet to see one person using it for anything. So far, >it is nothing more than marketing fodder: I haven't seen one >motherboard capable of more than 4G worth of SIMMs. The Dell PowerEdge 6450 supports 8 GB of RAM. http://www.dell.com/us/en/biz/products/model_pedge_pedge_6400.htm If I understand your comments in a few follow-up messages correctly you're saying that this effort may be better spent by working on an IA-64 port and making it support large memory configurations? Can you elaborate? -Charles To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message