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Re: [Xen-devel] Memory limit / xen for Conectiva

To: "James Harper" <JamesH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Memory limit / xen for Conectiva
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 10:04:35 +0100
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> Is there no way to make use of this high memory? Not even as a ramdisk
> or something? Or does any access at all require PAE36?
> 
> James

Apart from PAE36, there is no way to make the CPU drive the four most
significant address lines. 

It's maybe something to think about in the future, but the work
required is non-trivial. We expect that people with big memory
requirements will move to x86-64 so we will concentrate on that
first. 

 -- Keir


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