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Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 14:00:54 -0700
From: Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>
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To: "Andrew R. Reiter" <arr@watson.org>
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Subject: Re: PAE (was Re: bus_dmamem_alloc_size())
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Andrew R. Reiter wrote:
> <SNIP ALOT>
> 
> :
> :If someone is interested in working on this, it would be very nice to have
> :for 5-STABLE.  Things that you would want to consider are 1) sparc64
> :IOMMU, 2) AGP GART, 3) whatever magic exists for alpha and ia64, 4)
> :how to make this work with PAE on i386.
> 
> 
> Anyone know the status of PAE in fBSD?  I heard rumors awhile back that
> people had patches, or Y! had patches... but has anyone actually coughed
> them up?
> 
> Cheers,
> Andrew
> 
> --
> Andrew R. Reiter
> arr@watson.org
> arr@FreeBSD.org

I know of an unofficial rumor that a contract is being arranged for a 
FreeBSD
developer to start work on it very soon.

Scott


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