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Date:      Mon, 09 Oct 2000 15:59:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, keichii@peorth.iteration.net, rb@gid.co.uk, Mitsuru IWASAKI <iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Recent kernels won't boot
Message-ID:  <XFMail.001009155933.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200010090610.e9969xh03937@mass.osd.bsdi.com>

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On 09-Oct-00 Mike Smith wrote:
>> > That was it. Is the 4MB kernel size limit documented anywhere?
>> 
>> I don't know :-)   I luckily noticed this by a lot of trials.
> 
> I'm not aware of any 4MB limit on kernel size (and I ought to be if there 
> is one 8).  Can you run the details past me?  (I've regularly booted much 
> larger kernels in the past...)

I think the PSE optimization may limit us to a 4mb kernel size?  Perhaps
options DISABLE_PSE would work around it then?

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