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Date:      Thu, 22 Jan 2015 12:40:15 -0500 (EST)
From:      Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU>
To:        Torsten Zuehlsdorff <mailinglists@toco-domains.de>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [FAQ] Wrong size of supported maximum RAM
Message-ID:  <alpine.GSO.1.10.1501221238070.23489@multics.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <54C0D464.7030708@toco-domains.de>
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On Thu, 22 Jan 2015, Torsten Zuehlsdorff wrote:

> On 21.01.2015 19:57, Allan Jude wrote:
> > On 2015-01-21 13:55, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> > > On Wed, 21 Jan 2015, Torsten Zuehlsdorff wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > the FAQ says in chapter 4.1.2:
> > > > "AMD64 platforms currently deployed support up to 1 TB of physical
> > > > memory."
> > > >
> > > > This is currently no longer true since 10.0. There it was raised to 4
> > > > TB. Have
> > > > a look at:
> > > > https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.0R/relnotes.html
> > > >
> > > > Chapter 2.2, fourth paragraph. Can somebody update this?
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, the release notes are immutable after the release.
> > >
> > > The statement in question does not appear to be present in the 10.1
> > > release notes, so it is possible that no action is needed.
> > >
> > > -Ben Kaduk
> > > _______________________________________________
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> > >
> >
> > He is asking that the FAQ be changed, based on the release notes.
>
> Yes :)

Sorry I misread you, and thank you Allan for the correction.

> And i currently noticed, that i should submit this to the bugtracker. If
> somebody can point me to the source of the FAQ i will provide a patch.

The relevant source file/location is around here:
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/doc/head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml?revision=45497&view=markup#l1485

-Ben



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