Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 15:51:04 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 machdep.c Message-ID: <20010622225105.307133808@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010622153855.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John Baldwin 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 actually have a machine here with 6G of ram...
> > 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?
Quad on i386 anyone? :-)
Cheers,
-Peter
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