Re: i386 PAE support (Patches)

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 08:38:30PM +0000, Jeremy Morse wrote:
> 
> NB: I'm aware one immediate answer to this might be "Just install a 64
> bit kernel/os to use high memory": My main aim doing this was to be able
> to use the no-execute memory bit that's available with PAE.

There are a considerable number of systems where 64-bit mode is simply
unavailable or is slower than 32-bit mode, but which have PAE support in
the MMU -- any Intel processor older than the very last Pentium 4 models.

So, thanks.  A lot.

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