Re: [PATCH] x86: 46 bit PAE support

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu May 07 2009 - 08:46:21 EST


On Wed 2009-05-06 08:20:59, Rik van Riel wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Rik van Riel wrote:
>>> Testing: booted it on an x86-64 system with 6GB RAM. Did you really think
>>> I had access to a system with 64TB of RAM? :)
>>
>> No, but it would be good if we could test it under Qemu or KVM with an
>> appropriately set up sparse memory map.
>
> I don't have a system with 1TB either, which is how much space
> the memmap[] would take...

Do we really have 1 byte overhead per 64 bytes of RAM?
Pavel
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