From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 2 22:21: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B61C637B401; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 22:21:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.244.104.136.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.244.104.136]) by avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA28890; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 22:20:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B6A34E2.96498938@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 22:21:38 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rik van Riel Cc: Kenneth Wayne Culver , John Baldwin , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, craig Subject: Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Rik van Riel wrote: > > 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. Last time I looked, the kernel was software... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message