Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 20:21:13 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Michael Robinson <robinson@netrinsics.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How 64-bit is Alpha FreeBSD? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910102018510.91778-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <199910090933.RAA03434@netrinsics.com>
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On Sat, 9 Oct 1999, Michael Robinson wrote: > I'd like to know what kind of restrictions there are on how big an > mmap object can be, how big of an address space one process can have, and > other similar things which are limited by the 32-bit word size on the i386 > port. > > Any information, or pointers to information, will be greatly appreciated. We support a 42 bit user address space right now. This is a hardware limitation for older alphas but could be changed for newer hardware which could probably extend it to 55 bits. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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