From owner-cvs-all Sat Jun 23 12:58:50 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from scribble.fsn.hu (scribble.fsn.hu [193.224.40.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F3DC37B408 for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 12:58:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bra@fsn.hu) Received: (qmail 67534 invoked by uid 1000); 23 Jun 2001 19:58:34 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 23 Jun 2001 19:58:34 -0000 Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 21:58:34 +0200 (CEST) From: Attila Nagy To: John Baldwin Cc: , Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 machdep.c In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20010623214226.H67164-100000@scribble.fsn.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Hello, > > 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. Do you plan to support this feature in the future (for example in 5.0)? I think it's not too easy and not an obvious task, but maybe it's worth the extra work (people using big DBs on x86?)... -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attila Nagy e-mail: Attila.Nagy@fsn.hu Budapest Polytechnic (BMF.HU) @work: +361 210 1415 (194) H-1084 Budapest, Tavaszmezo u. 15-17. cell.: +3630 306 6758 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message