Re: PAE and i386 kernel

[Steven Bellovin <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Oct 6, 2009, at 11:36 41AM, Brook Milligan wrote:

> Matthias Scheler writes:
> > Out of interest:
> > What do you hope to get from NetBSD/i386 PAE in comparison to  
> > NetBSD/amd64?
>
> I have some older machines that will handle more than 4Gb memory but
> from what I understand the CPUs will not run amd64 (missing EM64T
> support; see below).  Am I understanding the requirements for amd64
> correctly?


If you can, boot a 5.0 install disk and look at its dmesg output -- I  
was told a few months ago that 4.0 doesn't properly decode the feature  
flags involved in the EM64T bit...

                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb