From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Hopwood Subject: Re: understanding __linear_l2_table and friends Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 03:53:43 +0100 Message-ID: <426C5BB7.7060202@blueyonder.co.uk> References: <20050424195522.GA13295@bytesex> <426C3CA5.8000804@blueyonder.co.uk> <200504250146.35870.mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk> Reply-To: david.nospam.hopwood@blueyonder.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200504250146.35870.mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Mark Williamson wrote: >>What does that have to do with PAE support in Xen? x86_64 machines >>do not support PAE, and do not need it to run 32-bit applications. > > OK but if you don't use the 64-bit mode at all there's nothing to stop you > booting in vanilla PAE mode. Oh, you're right. I had somehow got the impression that AMD64 boxes didn't support PAE in "legacy mode" either, but I see that I was mistaken (section 5 of volume 2 of the arch manual). -- David Hopwood