Re: PAE and i386 kernel

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20091006140232.GA25008%colwyn.zhadum.org.uk@localhost>,
Matthias Scheler  <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost> wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 03:40:21PM +0200, Christoph Egger wrote:
>> > Thanks for the answer.  Is there any idea what would be required
>> > to support it for i386 kernels?
>> 
>> AFAIK the bootstrapping code.
>
>What about bus_dma() support? Can NetBSD/i386 already handle
>DMA to 64-bit addresses?

It would need to limit dma buffers to below 4GB. This needs to be fixed
anyway (read the comment in the DRM code).

christos