From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jan 30 0:30:26 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71DB537B401 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 00:30:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29B2E43F43 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 00:30:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05CC12A8A1; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 00:30:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Terry Lambert Cc: "Andrew R. Reiter" , Scott Long , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PAE (was Re: bus_dmamem_alloc_size()) In-Reply-To: <3E3890A6.E7256A55@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 00:30:20 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20030130083020.05CC12A8A1@canning.wemm.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert wrote: > Peter Wemm wrote: > > Terry Lambert wrote: > > > "Andrew R. Reiter" wrote: > > > > Anyone know the status of PAE in fBSD? I heard rumors awhile back that > > > > people had patches, or Y! had patches... but has anyone actually coughe d > > > > them up? > > > > > > Contact Paul Saab. > > > > Nope. > > Peter Wemm? We've been tinkering with it, but frankly, PAE isn't as useful to us as a larger virtual address space would be. eg: ia64 or x86-64. There have been various experiments and parts of the problem worked on, but nothing even remotely complete. Most of what I've tinkered with is available in the p4 tree. Reliable sources tell me that this should change soon, but it is not from Y!. I'll leave it up to the folks involved to add more details if they think it appropriate. In the mean time, please stop sending people in our direction. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message