Frank van der Linden wrote:
> It's called PAE (Physical Address Extensions), allowing for 36-bit
> physical addresses. It's all hidden in the page table, which has
> entried widened to 64 bits, so that the 36 bits of physical address
> fit in there. Virtual address space is still 32 bits wide.

This means that e.g. i386 kernel is still mapped on upper 1G of
process virtual address space, and that kernel itself can only
use up to 1G of physical memory, right?

Jaromir
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