Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 16:18:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 16:17:14 -0400 Received: from pc1-cwma1-5-cust42.swa.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.120.42]:5307 "EHLO irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 16:15:55 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch] generic nonlinear mappings, 2.5.44-mm2-D0 From: Alan Cox To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Andrew Morton , Christoph Hellwig , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-mm@kvack.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-10) Date: 22 Oct 2002 21:38:08 +0100 Message-Id: <1035319088.31873.149.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 702 Lines: 15 On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 21:27, Ingo Molnar wrote: > limit. I do not realistically believe that any 32-bit x86 box that is > connected to a larger than 2 TB disk array cannot possibly run a PAE > kernel. Just like you need PAE for more than 4 GB physical RAM. I find it > a bit worrisome that 32-bit x86 ptes can only support up to 4 GB of > physical RAM, but such is life :-) Actually I know a few. 2Tb is cheap - its one pci controller and eight ide disks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/