Re: [PATCH] - Increase max physical memory size of x86_64

[Andreas Herrmann]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 08:31:57AM -0500, Jack Steiner wrote:
> Increase the maximum physical address size of x86_64 system
> to 44-bits. This is in preparation for future chips that
> support larger physical memory sizes.

Shouldn't this be increased to 48?
AMD family 10h CPUs actually support 48 bits for the
physical address.


Regards,

Andreas


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