From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 20 20:13:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (cust-P5-R6-162.POOL.ESR.SJO.wwc.com [206.112.109.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A68A37B401; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 20:13:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6L3DVd03494; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 20:13:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200107210313.f6L3DVd03494@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Juha Saarinen Cc: Mike Smith , Andrew Boothman , "janb@cs.utep.edu" , "Daniel C. Sobral" , Stefan Molnar , Marek Gorka , "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.3 and 6G RAM In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 21 Jul 2001 15:03:40 +1200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 20:13:30 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Mike Smith wrote: > > > "fully 64-bit" meaning what? > > Meaning if you need large memory configurations. Yes, but what is "fully 64-bit"? Are you talking about software? Hardware? You're being very untechnical. > > PAE has lots of advantages in the right context. > > What would those be? I guess it's cheaper, you can run existing 32-bit > apps, but other than that, I can't quite see why it's a good solution. Er, because it's the only way to handle > 4GB of physical memory on an IA32 system. If by "fully 64-bit" you mean "64-bit physical and virtual addresses on IA32", then you need to look at the "32" bit in "IA32" again. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message