question on e7500 sizeram

[steven james]

Greetings,

Sorta Like when my machine w/ 4 MEG of ram and 120 MEG HD seemed imposible
to ever fill up :-) These days, 32 bits is too cramped for some single
processes.

G'day,
sjames


On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, steven james wrote:
> 
> > My understanding is that it is used to accomodate PCI memory mappings. The
> > layout is regular memory, then PCI devices, APICs and flash, then any
> > physical ram above remap_high goes over the 4Gig mark (for PAE).
> 
> yea, I read the sense of that remap_high variable backwards: I thought it 
> meant "remap high memory to low" but it mean "remap low memory to high". 
> 
> Very cool. 
> 
> Anybody remember when 32 bits seemed like a lot of memory?
> 
> ron
> 

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