From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 13 21:14:51 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5B97F9BB for ; Mon, 13 Apr 2015 21:14:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from isis.lip6.fr (isis.lip6.fr [132.227.60.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC5C69CB for ; Mon, 13 Apr 2015 21:14:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from asim.lip6.fr (asim.lip6.fr [132.227.86.2]) by isis.lip6.fr (8.15.1/lip6) with ESMTP id t3DLEmgq027728 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 2015 23:14:48 +0200 (CEST) X-pt: isis.lip6.fr Received: from [0.0.0.0] (tor-exit-node.dnslab.nl [95.211.229.158]) (authenticated bits=0) by asim.lip6.fr (8.15.1/8.14.4) with ESMTPSA id t3DLEgeZ028231 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 13 Apr 2015 23:14:46 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <552C31CA.4070300@asim.lip6.fr> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 23:14:50 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?UGllcnJlLVl2ZXMgUMOpbmVhdQ==?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: How FreeBSD manage more than 4GB on 32 bits architecture References: <552794F7.60306@asim.lip6.fr> <20150410171240.770.qmail@ary.lan> <552B9E81.9080005@asim.lip6.fr> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------080302000501040704010305" X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (isis.lip6.fr [132.227.60.2]); Mon, 13 Apr 2015 23:14:48 +0200 (CEST) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.75 on 132.227.60.2 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 21:14:51 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------080302000501040704010305 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 04/13/2015 11:08 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 13 April 2015 at 03:46, Pierre-Yves Péneau > wrote: Thanks everyone for your > advices. > > If FreeBSD is chose for this work, I'll look at PAE and MIPS > support. > >> Hi! > >> If there's anything we can do to help you along with choosing >> FreeBSD then please don't hesitate to ask! > > > >> -adrian > > On 04/10/2015 09:16 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: >>>> Hi! >>>> >>>> Everyone - this is a research project. If they want to hack >>>> around with FreeBSD on a PAE style 32 bit system but >>>> massively parallel, please let them. If they hit the same >>>> walls as others have hit, hey, great. But they may come up >>>> with something novel. >>>> >>>> Pierre - thanks for looking into it. Yes, there's PAE support >>>> in FreeBSD. Yes, there's some NUMA domain awareness in >>>> FreeBSD. You're definitely not starting from scratch. I don't >>>> know of any PAE style awareness in the MIPS32 code; that >>>> would be a good place to start investigating. >>>> >>>> So please take a look at what PAE / i386 is doing and see if >>>> you can map that to vm and pmap management for MIPS32. It'd >>>> likely overlap a lot with how we would support > 256MB of >>>> RAM on MIPS32 - right now we just use the direct map setup >>>> for everything, and that's limited to the KSEG sizes of >>>> 256MB. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -adrian _______________________________________________ >>>> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>>> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>>> > > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To >> unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Thanks Adrian. I can't change the operating system *now*. For my internship, I've to use an homemade OS specially designed for our architecture (TSAR). 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