Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 15:26:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org> Subject: D'oh! Message-ID: <20010622152459.X21527-100000@wonky.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <20010622152251.N21527-100000@wonky.feral.com>
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On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > > On 22-Jun-01 Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > > > Hmm- can you have more than 4GB of memory on an i386? > > > > Yes, you can have up to 64gb on PPro's or later (at least, the CPU's support a > > 36-bit physical address space) but we don't currently support the extensions so > > we can't use more than 4 anyways. > > > > > I also notice that it's an int on alpha too. That's a very big bug. > > > > Perhaps it should be a u_long on the alpha? > > Probably. I'll change it and see what breaks. Aghh.... internally to the kernel physmem is in units of pages for alpha or the oldie moldy 'clicks' for i386. What *was* I thinking? It's really just the sysctl representation, no? -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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