Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G?

[Kenneth Wayne Culver]

Oh ok, I knew that regular PIII's only had 32 bits... but it's still
obviously a pain in the butt to use above 4GB.

Ken

On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote:
> 
> > Also, the PIII CAN'T natively support more than 4GB of ram. If a
> > particular PIII motherboard supports this, then it's using some
> > kind of wierd chipset that allows this to happen. 4GB is the
> > limit with a 32 bit chip I believe; and the PIII is a 32-bit
> > chip.
> 
> The Xeon series have 32 bits of virtual address space
> and 36 bits of physical address space.
> 
> Rik
> --
> Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release:
>    "we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)"
> 
> 
>               http://www.surriel.com/
> http://www.conectiva.com/     http://distro.conectiva.com/
> 
> 


To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message