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From: Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@intel.com>
Subject: Re: ia64/72128: 5.3-beta6 doesn't boot
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The following reply was made to PR ia64/72128; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@intel.com>
To: Mark Linimon <linimon@freebsd.org>
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org,
	freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ia64/72128: 5.3-beta6 doesn't boot
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 17:44:56 -0700

 On 10/8/2004 2:24 PM, Arun Sharma wrote:
 > On 10/7/2004 11:02 PM, Mark Linimon wrote:
 > 
 >> This may be processor-specific.
 >>
 >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=72128
 > 
 > 
 > I just tested that the 5.3-beta7 works fine on a 4 way Tiger with 1GB 
 > RAM. I don't think there have been critical bug fixes between beta6 and 
 > beta7 that affect the tiger. Also, on a 4GB machine, FreeBSD ignores RAM 
 > above 1GB.
 
 I meant to say FreeBSD ignores RAM above 4GB physical. So depending on your memory map, this may or may not be a problem.
 
 	-Arun