Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G?

[Mike Smith]

> > No
> > The space is linear in physical space and if you have PCI/64
> > capable devices they can access it all too.
> > 
> > (In fact 64 bit addresses have been supported even in 32 bit wide PCI 
> > since day 1).
> 
> OK, then what was that whole paging thing everyone was talking about, I
> thought that was partially done in hardware on the chipset of the
> motherboard... or was that completely in the operating system?

Julian is on crack.  DAC (Double Address Cycle) is a relatively recent 
addition to PCI that allows 32-bit cards with 64-bit savvy logic to talk 
to host memory using 64-bit target addresses.

Older systems used a scatter-gather mechanism to present a virtualised 
view of the system's physical address space to the PCI bus (typically 
you'll see this in Alpha systems).

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