Re: Using >1GB RAM

Jakub Jelinek (jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz)
Wed, 14 Jan 1998 00:48:38 +0100 (MET)

> > Not if he needs to ditch his (awesome) machine first...
> > He's got a machine, and needs to get it to work.
> > AFAIK, it's not an FAQ yet that Linux doesn't support
> > more than 1G of memory on ia32 (or any 32bit arch)

This is wrong, sparc32 can work with 2G physical memory without problems.
And if someone needs more, current sparc64 page tables offer 40bit physical
and 44bit virtual...

Cheers,
Jakub
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Jakub Jelinek | jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz
Administrator of SunSITE Czech Republic, MFF, Charles University
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