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Date:      Thu, 2 Aug 2001 15:39:52 -0300 (BRST)
From:      Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To:        Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org>, craig <craiglei@pasia.com.cn>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Subject:   Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0108021538490.5582-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0108021436250.20844-100000@rac2.wam.umd.edu>

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On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote:

"Replying above an email because the curser is there is like
 shitting in your pants because your ass is there when you
 need to go to the toilet."

> BUT, don't the motherboards also have to support this? And isn't
> it only supported through some wierd segmentation thing?

Yes, the mainboard needs to support the memory.

No, there is no weird segmentation thing, at least
not visible from software.

regards,

Rik
--
Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release:
   "we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)"


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