From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 4 6:21: 7 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 210EC37B401 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 06:21:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from scribble.fsn.hu (scribble.fsn.hu [193.224.40.95]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A3D4F43E4A for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 06:21:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bra@fsn.hu) Received: (qmail 4812 invoked by uid 1000); 4 Feb 2003 14:21:02 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 4 Feb 2003 14:21:02 -0000 Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 15:21:02 +0100 (CET) From: Attila Nagy To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Silly question regarding x86-64 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I have a very silly (because real hardware isn't yet ready) question to x86-64 support. According to the docs, the first implementation of x86-64 will use PAE to map 48 bit address space to 40 bit, which is 128 GB. Will FreeBSD support that 40 bit addressing or it will be similar to the alpha platform due to some bugs and will use only a smaller portion of the available memory? BTW, what's the exact state of this project? On its webpage the latest news is from 13 April 2001. and says David O'Brien got the software simulator... Thanks, ----------[ Free Software ISOs - http://www.fsn.hu/?f=download ]---------- Attila Nagy e-mail: Attila.Nagy@fsn.hu Free Software Network (FSN.HU) phone @work: +361 210 1415 (194) cell.: +3630 306 6758 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message