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From: Chan Tur Wei <twchan@singnet.com.sg>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.3 and 6G RAM
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Hi,

Heh heh. Just a wild idea: How about a multi-processor system FreeBSD where
each CPU gets mapped to different 4G segments?  Perhaps some of the
address space can overlap to offer real SMP?


Regards

  -T.W.Chan-

On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:

> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 23:03:46 -0400
> From: Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <allbery@ece.cmu.edu>
> To: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Cc: janb@cs.utep.edu, Daniel C. Sobral <daniel.sobral@tcoip.com.br>,
>      Stefan Molnar <stefan@csudsu.com>, Marek Gorka <marek.gorka@tpi.pl>,
>      freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.3 and 6G RAM
>
> On Saturday, July 21, 2001 03:04:32 +0100, Andrew Boothman
> <andrew@cream.org> wrote:
> +-----
> | Has any other BSD or linux tackled this issue yet?
> +--->8
>
> There are Linux patches for 64GB support, and at least one Linux
> distribution includes those patches (the 2.4-SMP kernel in SuSE 7.[12]).
>
> --
> brandon s. allbery  [os/2][linux][solaris][freebsd]   allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
> system administrator   [JAPH][WAY too many hats]        allbery@ece.cmu.edu
> electrical and computer engineering                                   KF8NH
> carnegie mellon university     [linux: proof of the million monkeys theory]
>
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