Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932552AbVJaXDN (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:03:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932554AbVJaXDN (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:03:13 -0500 Received: from dvhart.com ([64.146.134.43]:28073 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932552AbVJaXDL (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:03:11 -0500 Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:03:08 -0800 From: "Martin J. Bligh" Reply-To: "Martin J. Bligh" To: Alan Cox , Alejandro Bonilla Cc: Marcel Holtmann , Dave Jones , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 4GB memory and Intel Dual-Core system Message-ID: <12100000.1130799788@flay> In-Reply-To: <1130711165.32734.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1130445194.5416.3.camel@blade> <52mzkuwuzg.fsf@cisco.com> <20051027204923.M89071@linuxwireless.org> <1130446667.5416.14.camel@blade> <20051027205921.M81949@linuxwireless.org> <1130447261.5416.20.camel@blade> <20051027211203.M33358@linuxwireless.org> <20051027220533.GA18773@redhat.com> <1130451071.5416.32.camel@blade> <20051027221253.GA25932@redhat.com> <1130451421.5416.35.camel@blade> <20051027221756.M55421@linuxwireless.org> <1130711165.32734.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.1.2 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 721 Lines: 20 --On Sunday, October 30, 2005 22:26:05 +0000 Alan Cox wrote: > On Iau, 2005-10-27 at 18:20 -0400, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: >> Dude, again. This has nothing to do with the CPU. The arch IA32 is simply >> _not_ made for 4GB, so, some motherboards manufacturers make a workaround like > > Wrong IA-32 supports more than 4Gb in PAE 36bit physical 32bit virtual > mode and has done since the Preventium Pro Indeed ... I have 64GB ia32 boxes ;-) M. - 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/