From owner-cvs-all Fri Jun 22 15:51:19 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from peter3.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [65.0.135.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B78C37B409; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 15:51:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f5MMp5M20189; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 15:51:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 307133808; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 15:51:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: John Baldwin Cc: Matthew Jacob , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 machdep.c In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 15:51:04 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20010622225105.307133808@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message