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Re: Large memory with netbsd 4



On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 08:18:54AM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:
Hmmm, I'm running -current on a machine with 8GB of RAM, and had to
disable the top 4GB to avoid lots of random crashes.  IIRC, someone on
this list indicated that there was an "issue" with DMA bounce buffers
above the 4GB boundary point.

What devices are you using?

Nothing esoteric! I attached my kernel config file and dmesg output to an earlier message in this thread; if you missed it let me know and I can send it again.


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