Re: The 4GB memory thing

Andrea Arcangeli
1999-11-04T18:19:21Z

kanoj@google.engr.sgi.com (Kanoj Sarcar) writes:

> I have a 2.2 patch for 4Gb support, which has seen a lot of stress
> testing by now. The 2.3 >2gb support uses a different (and better
> approach), but last I checked, things like rawio did not work above
> >2Gb. The 64Gb support is completely new ...

2.2.13aa3 includes both 4g bigmem support and rawio and you can do
rawio on all the memory (bigmem included).

ftp://ftp.*.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.2/2.2.13aa3/

This is the README on how to go in sync with 2.2.13aa3:

ftp://ftp.*.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/tools/apply-patches/README.gz

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Andrea