Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 10:05:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, craig <craiglei@pasia.com.cn>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0108021004290.20844-100000@rac2.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0108021043350.5582-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>
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Oh ok, I knew that regular PIII's only had 32 bits... but it's still obviously a pain in the butt to use above 4GB. Ken On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > > > Also, the PIII CAN'T natively support more than 4GB of ram. If a > > particular PIII motherboard supports this, then it's using some > > kind of wierd chipset that allows this to happen. 4GB is the > > limit with a 32 bit chip I believe; and the PIII is a 32-bit > > chip. > > The Xeon series have 32 bits of virtual address space > and 36 bits of physical address space. > > Rik > -- > Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release: > "we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)" > > > http://www.surriel.com/ > http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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