From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jan 30 16:56:53 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B04BE37B401 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 16:56:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63ED043F43 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 16:56:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 487652A89E; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 16:56:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Scott Long Cc: Terry Lambert , Julian Elischer , David Schultz , "Andrew R. Reiter" , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PAE (was Re: bus_dmamem_alloc_size()) In-Reply-To: <3E39C764.3070500@btc.adaptec.com> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 16:56:52 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20030131005652.487652A89E@canning.wemm.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message