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Date:      Thu, 02 Aug 2001 22:21:38 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc:        Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, craig <craiglei@pasia.com.cn>
Subject:   Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G?
Message-ID:  <3B6A34E2.96498938@mindspring.com>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0108021538490.5582-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>

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Rik van Riel wrote:
> > BUT, don't the motherboards also have to support this? And isn't
> > it only supported through some wierd segmentation thing?
> 
> Yes, the mainboard needs to support the memory.
> 
> No, there is no weird segmentation thing, at least
> not visible from software.

Last time I looked, the kernel was software...

-- Terry

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