Subject: Re: >4GB RAM on i386??
To: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/15/2001 20:33:48
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 03:29:04AM +0100, Lennart Augustsson wrote:

 > You could use 64 bit PCI devices.  Does NetBSD support that yet?

Yah, 64-bit devices in 64-bit PCI slots could do 64-bit addressing
(assuming the PCI-Host bridge supports it).  64-bit devices in
32-bit slots could also work if the device and the PCI-Host bridge
supported Dual-Address-Cycle.

Really, it all depends on how lame the system's PCI implementation is.

But bus_dma on the i386 port currently only supports 32-bit addresses.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>