Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:17:47 +0100 From: Arne Schwabe <arne@rfc2549.org> To: Omar Punzalan <omar.punzalan@ifom-ieo-campus.it> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RX4640 Message-ID: <86ekj1laqc.fsf@kamino.rfc1149.org> In-Reply-To: <E9818952-31B4-11D9-A5EA-000393DAB970@ifom-ieo-campus.it> (Omar Punzalan's message of "Mon, 8 Nov 2004 19:35:06 %2B0100") References: <20041108120100.2CC8216A4D2@hub.freebsd.org> <E9818952-31B4-11D9-A5EA-000393DAB970@ifom-ieo-campus.it>
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Omar Punzalan <omar.punzalan@ifom-ieo-campus.it> writes: > Dear Hackers, > > I have successfully installed my new (and shiny) freebsd5.3 on one of > our hp rx4640 itanium2 system. With the SMP kernel, it has detected > the 4 CPUs correctly. But then reviewing the /var/log/messages, its > sees only 1G of ram: > > Nov 8 18:10:50 TEST2 kernel: real memory = 1058357248 (1009 MB) > Nov 8 18:10:50 TEST2 kernel: avail memory = 1018814464 (971 MB) > Nov 8 18:10:50 TEST2 kernel: FPSWA Revision = 0x10012, Entry = > 0xe0000040ffe62050 > Nov 8 18:10:50 TEST2 kernel: FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System > Detected: 4 CPUs > > On my web searches, I found out that not even PAE is supported in ia64 > arch. I also put hw.physmem=8G inside the loader.conf but no effect. > Is there a way for me to convince freebsd that the system has 8Gb of > ram? If I remember PAE was a hack for IA32 to allow more then 4GB but since ia64 is 64 bit it should not such a hack for > 4gb Arne -- compiling millions of tiny c-programs...done checking for a working configure script... not found
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