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Date:      Fri, 22 Jun 2001 15:38:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 machdep.c
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010622153855.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010622150920.L20923-100000@wonky.feral.com>

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On 22-Jun-01 Matthew Jacob wrote:
> 
> Hmm- can you have more than 4GB of memory on an i386?

Yes, you can have up to 64gb on PPro's or later (at least, the CPU's support a
36-bit physical address space) but we don't currently support the extensions so
we can't use more than 4 anyways.

> I also notice that it's an int on alpha too. That's a very big bug.

Perhaps it should be a u_long on the alpha?

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