I've been searching but can't find anything concrete... amd64.html and the FAQ's amd64 section do not mention any problems, so I'm asking here. (I found little bits here and there about this problem affecting a lot of freenixes but nothing tangible. Apologies if I've missed something major...)
Trying to boot a sun v40z with >4GB RAM fails with OpenBSD/amd64 3.6 and 3.7-current from yesterday. i386 3.7-current works. (begin snippet from amd64 3.7-current from yesterday) >> OpenBSD/amd64 PXEBOOT 1.06 booting tftp:bsd.rd: 1468848+300494+2137464+0+469256 [80+156528+90879]=0x8692c8 entry point at 0x1001e0 [7205c766, 34000004, 24448612, 68a0a304] WARNING: CAN'T ALLOCATE EXTENDED MEMORY FROM IOMEM EXTENT MAP! skipping 3824615424 bytes of memory above 4GB panic: init_x86_64: can't find end of memory The operating system has halted. Please press any key to reboot. (end snippet) Removing all but 4GB of memory allows the system to boot without issue. So, the inevitable question: is there any workaround or fix in development that I may test? I would happily do so. Should I sendbug(1) this? My guess is that this is already well known to everyone except me... Thanks in advance.
