Subject: Re: >4GB RAM on i386??
To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net>
From: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/15/2001 13:51:26
Wojciech Puchar wrote:

> i found infos about 2-way pentium-III servers accepting 6 GB of RAM.
>
> HOW is it addressed?!?!

There are plenty of address lines from the chip (I forget exactly how many, 40?).
To access it from software you need to change the memory mappings since
you can only see 4G at a time.

    -- Lennart