On Fri, Oct 11, 2024 at 03:00:23PM +0200, Christian Schulte wrote: > On 10/11/24 13:57, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2024-10-09, obs...@loopw.com <obs...@loopw.com> wrote: > >>> In a second server I have upgraded from 7.5 i386 to 7.6 i386 but server > >>> sees only 4GB of RAM > >> > >>> Is anybody with similar experiences? Any ideas how to fix RAM? > >> > >> run 64bit OpenBSD > >> > >> 32bit address space is limited to a max of 4GB**, and some of that is > >> eaten up by PCI devices, etc. > >> ** PAE can work around this, but I’m not sure if OpenBSD supports PAE at > >> all (and theres other issues/caveats with using PAE of course, including > >> speed and security) > > > > OpenBSD does support PAE on i386, but not for increasing address space, > > just for W^X. See /sys/arch/i386/i386/pmapae.c r1.28. > > > > > > Hmm. Why not give up on i386 and make that i686 instead (Pentium Pro)? > What I mean by this. Rename the current i386 to i686 by compiling it for > i686 and update the pmap to support more than 4GB physical RAM (PAE). > Supporting i386 is like supporting 68030.
That's such a trivial task you should be able to finish it over the weekend. We all wait for your diff on Monday. -- :wq Claudio
