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Date:      Sun, 13 Oct 2002 20:16:34 +0200
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        tlambert2@mindspring.com, ticso@cicely.de, hch@infradead.org, wes@softweyr.com, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, vova@sw.ru, nate@root.org, arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Database indexes and ram
Message-ID:  <20021013181633.GB34517@cicely8.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <20021013.120847.31902907.imp@bsdimp.com>
References:  <3DA954CF.98B0891A@mindspring.com> <20021013.060851.113437955.imp@bsdimp.com> <3DA9B4A8.194A02FC@mindspring.com> <20021013.120847.31902907.imp@bsdimp.com>

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On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 12:08:47PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> I think that's all irrelevant.  Cards with 32bits can't go about 4GB.
> It is a far more fundamental problem.  Even 32bit cards in 64bit slots
> can't do this.  64bit cards could DMA into anywhere in the first
> 64bits of RAM, of course.

Of course they can do.
It's just a matter if the card and the board support 2 address cycles.
Or if the board can map the pci reachable space - as alphas can do.

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B.Walter              COSMO-Project         http://www.cosmo-project.de
ticso@cicely.de         Usergroup           info@cosmo-project.de


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