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Date:      Thu, 30 Jan 2003 16:56:52 -0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.berkeley.edu>, "Andrew R. Reiter" <arr@watson.org>, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PAE (was Re: bus_dmamem_alloc_size()) 
Message-ID:  <20030131005652.487652A89E@canning.wemm.org>
In-Reply-To: <3E39C764.3070500@btc.adaptec.com> 

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Scott Long wrote:

> Also, the PAE work that might happen is not going to affect the vast 
> majority of FreeBSD/i386 users at all; I can only imagine that it will 
> be a config(8) option that will most likely default to 'off'.
> There is nothing to bikeshed here.  Please respect that there are people 
> who need PAE, understand PAE, and will happily accept PAE.  Those who do 
> not need, understand, or accept it can go along with their lives 
> blissfully happy with it turned off.

Especially when you consider that PAE makes things slower.

Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5


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