Re: [patch] generic nonlinear mappings, 2.5.44-mm2-D0

Alan Cox
2002-10-22T20:18:13Z

On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 21:27, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> limit. I do not realistically believe that any 32-bit x86 box that is
> connected to a larger than 2 TB disk array cannot possibly run a PAE
> kernel. Just like you need PAE for more than 4 GB physical RAM. I find it
> a bit worrisome that 32-bit x86 ptes can only support up to 4 GB of
> physical RAM, but such is life :-)

Actually I know a few. 2Tb is cheap - its one pci controller and eight
ide disks.