From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14120.65431.754233.47675@dukat.scot.redhat.com> Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 01:55:51 +0100 (BST) Subject: Re: Hello In-Reply-To: <001901be9324$66ddcbf0$c80c17ac@clmsdev.local> References: <001901be9324$66ddcbf0$c80c17ac@clmsdev.local> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Manfred Spraul Cc: "Benjamin C.R. LaHaise" , "James E. King, III" , linux-mm@kvack.org, Stephen Tweedie List-ID: Hi, On Fri, 30 Apr 1999 18:12:21 +0200, "Manfred Spraul" said: > * I haven't yet read the new Xeon page table extentions, > but perhaps we could support up to 64 GB memory without changing the > rest of the OS (Intel could write such a driver for Windows NT, > I'm sure this is possible for Linux, too). NT's VLM support only gives you access to the high memory if you use a special API. We plan on supporting clean access to all of physical memory quite transparently for Linux, without any such restrictions. --Stephen -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm my@address' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/