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Re: spurious reboot



On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 04:31:48PM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 05:27:15PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > A GENERIC/i386 won't see more than 4Gb anyway, and usually it's more
> > like 3Gb because 1Gb mapped to PCI memory space. GENERIC/i386 with PAE
> > should see the 8Gb but maybe it has not been tested as much as i386 or 
> > amd64.
> 
> Sure, but 3GB is not 2GB...

Yes, but depending on the hardware and BIOS, I can immagine that only 2GB can
be below the 2^32 limit, and the remaming above (eventually well above).
Splitting at 3Gb is more annoying, hardware-wise, than at 2Gb.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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