Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 21:58:34 +0200 (CEST) From: Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 machdep.c Message-ID: <20010623214226.H67164-100000@scribble.fsn.hu> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010622153855.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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Hello, > > Hmm- can you have more than 4GB of memory on an i386? > Yes, you can have up to 64gb on PPro's or later (at least, the CPU's > support a 36-bit physical address space) but we don't currently > support the extensions so we can't use more than 4 anyways. Do you plan to support this feature in the future (for example in 5.0)? I think it's not too easy and not an obvious task, but maybe it's worth the extra work (people using big DBs on x86?)... -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attila Nagy e-mail: Attila.Nagy@fsn.hu Budapest Polytechnic (BMF.HU) @work: +361 210 1415 (194) H-1084 Budapest, Tavaszmezo u. 15-17. cell.: +3630 306 6758 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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