Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 11:22:00 +0200 From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nathanw@uchicago.edu> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Systems with > 16 GB RAM Message-ID: <20070415092200.GA30161@alchemy.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.62.0704121545530.22005@harper.uchicago.edu> References: <Pine.GSO.4.62.0704121545530.22005@harper.uchicago.edu>
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On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 03:50:33PM -0500, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > Does anyone know if there are currently problems booting on systems with > more than 16 GB of RAM? I noticed a note from release engineering on > 6.1-RELEASE saying this, but couldn't find any details. > > If this is true, does anyone have any theories for what is > responsible/patches? This particular todo list entry refers to the absence of bounce buffer support in iommu(4). Other than this the only other issue I'm aware of is that executing kernel modules above 4G doesn't work as also mentioned in that list. Marius
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