Re: PAE and i386 kernel

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 03:02:32PM +0100, Matthias Scheler 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?

We support i385PAE dom0 kernels, so most of the code for bus_dma() is
already there.
There could be 64bit bugs or bus_dma(9) misuse around though.

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