Subject: NetBSD/i386 on a 64-bit PCI motherboard
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: None <mcr@solidum.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/01/1999 10:37:34
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  Does anyone know much about how the 64 bit host bridges deals with
running 32-bit operating systems with 64 bit PCI buses? Does the PIII have
64-bit address modes? Should NetBSD running on such a system be considered to
be a completely different kernel architecture a la sparc vs sparc64?

  Should we consider buying Alpha or Sparc PCI motherboards instead of
Pentium if we want 64 bit PCI buses?  We are building some peripherals that
would like to have 2^31 blocks of PCI addresses, as well as the bandwidth of
64-bit PCI.

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