Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 22:00:35 -0700 From: Ken Gunderson <kgunders@teamcool.net> To: cokane@cokane.org Cc: amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: >32GB memory with Xeon ? Message-ID: <20070109220035.8c6da366.kgunders@teamcool.net> In-Reply-To: <346a80220701041445m26df386p84778e9ce574f02b@mail.gmail.com> References: <sa6lkku21j5.wl%tamaru@myn.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <20061226104440.5d52417b.kgunders@teamcool.net> <sa6psa6v2rf.wl%tamaru@myn.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <20061226153416.a2aacc13.kgunders@teamcool.net> <346a80220701041445m26df386p84778e9ce574f02b@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 15:45:40 -0700 "Coleman Kane" <zombyfork@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/26/06, Ken Gunderson <kgunders@teamcool.net> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 05:08:36 +0900 > > Hiroharu Tamaru <tamaru@myn.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp> wrote: > > > > > At Tue, 26 Dec 2006 10:44:40 -0700, Ken Gunderson wrote: > > > > > > > > On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 23:07:58 +0900 > > > > Hiroharu Tamaru <tamaru@myn.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hello list, > > > > > > > > > > Is there any limit on the amount of memory that can be used > > > > > with FreeBSD 6.x/amd64 ? I found that FreeBSD/ia64 > > > > > currently has 2GB limit. I was wondering how amd64 is like. > [snip] > Hey all, > > When I first looked into the amd64 platform I did research and made sure to > stay far from the nForce offerings that were around. I found a laptop with a > VIA chipset that has been pretty good to me, and was pretty decently > supported back in the early days of amd64 support in FreeBSD. > > From what I can tell, the nForce offerings are still troublesome but there > are many patches to work-around their problems. The VIA offerings seem to be > much more compatible. > > -- > Coleman Kane > Be interesting to see what shakes out on the chipset front for AMD now that they've bought ATI. I wonder if they'll go back to making their own like the good ol' 8131/8311 days... -- Best regards, Ken Gunderson "The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases." (Thomas Jefferson)home | help
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