Subject: Re: >4GB RAM on i386??
To: None <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/16/2001 03:29:04
Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 10:57:17PM +0100, Witold J. Wnuk wrote:
>
> > Is 32bit PCI memory space still mapped to the first 4GB in such case? I would
> > think that it should, for compatibility reasons and convenience.
> >
> > So either some of these 4GB RAM is mapped above 4GB in physical address space
> > or is masked by mapped PCI devices.
> >
> > How is it done? Could someone shed some light on this?
>
> Yah, you need bounce buffers (remember ISA? :-)
>
> PCs suck, sigh.
You could use 64 bit PCI devices. Does NetBSD support that yet?
-- Lennart