fc1_x86_64 preview on tyan thunder k8w (S2885ANRF REV .03)

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Sat Dec 13 13:44:47 UTC 2003


On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 08:53:17PM -0800, Philip Pokorny wrote:
> This is part of the answer to why someone would release a chipset that 
> can't remap memory.  The Athlon MP CPU's don't have PAE extended 
> addressing mode support, so they can only address 4G of total address 
> space so there is no reason to implement memory remapping.

Mine thinks it does. The pae flag is set. Whether the chipset supports it
is another matter, but the bus certainly does





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