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Date:      Fri, 12 Nov 2004 13:52:58 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Booting questions ....
Message-ID:  <200411121352.58518.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20041112092718.GA28754@stack.nl>
References:  <418AB176.9030604@withagen.nl> <200411100825.33982.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20041112092718.GA28754@stack.nl>

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On Friday 12 November 2004 04:27 am, Marc Olzheim wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 08:25:33AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> > Note that amd64 uses PAE, so if you want an amd64 version that can do
> > more than 4 GB you will have to handle PAE.
>
> Erhm... You're talking about amd64 running in i386 mode perhaps. Why
> would amd64 in native 64-bit mode need PAE ?

PAE is how native 64-bit mode does paging.  Basically an extended PAE.  
Perhaps there's a kind of flat mode for 64-bit mode, but I don't think there 
is.  In the kernel we use a psuedo flat-mode by having a direct-mapped region 
ala the K0seg on Alpha.

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