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Re: Ramdisk for > 1GB / >2 GB

To: Manfred Spraul <masp0008@stud.uni-sb.de>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Ramdisk for > 1GB / >2 GB
From: ralf@uni-koblenz.de
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 08:20:01 +0100
In-Reply-To: <004401be4e29$fb998300$c80c17ac@clmsdev>; from Manfred Spraul on Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 10:25:54PM +0100
References: <004401be4e29$fb998300$c80c17ac@clmsdev>
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On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 10:25:54PM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote:

> 3) Is more than 2 GB memory a problem that only applies to the i386
> architecture, or is there demand for that on PowerPC, Sparc32?

The limit is even lower, 512mb for the MIPS32 kernel.  This was so far not
a problem since the so far supported machines had a lower maximum but the
problem now showed up big time on the radar, so there will be a MIPS64
kernel with a 1TB maximum soon to solve the problem in the not far future.

  Ralf
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