From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.intermedia.net ([207.5.44.129]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA26710 for ; Tue, 4 May 1999 11:28:34 -0400 Received: from [193.159.8.35] by mail.colorfullife.com (NTMail 3.03.0017/1.abcr) with ESMTP id ra360845 for ; Tue, 4 May 1999 08:29:37 -0700 Message-ID: <004b01be970b$df3b4330$c80c17ac@clmsdev.local> Reply-To: "Manfred Spraul" From: "Manfred Spraul" Subject: Re: Hello Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 17:27:44 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Cc: "Benjamin C.R. LaHaise" , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: >The newer addressing mode is the 3-level page tables available in >PIIIs (and in later stepping PIIs, I think), which allow transparent >access to all of physical memory up to 64G. That's what I'm aiming >for. AFIAK it's the other way around: the 3-level system is PAE, available since PPro, and the 2-level system where only 4 MB PTE's can address memory > 3 GB is the new system added for the P-II Xeon. I think this mode was only added for WinNT: Intel wants to support > 4 GB memory, but the internal MM of NT is 2-level even in Windows-2000. (according to www.osr.com). Have you already started with your high-mem patch? -- Manfred -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm my@address' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/