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SubjectRe: Addressing more than 2 Gig of Memory
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>> I understand that there may be a Linux kernel patch available that
>> increases the maximum amount of addressable memory beyond 2 gigabytes.
>>
>> Do you know of such a patch for the 2.2 kernel?

>If you're talking about the 36 bit memory support, such a patch does not
>exist yet -- to the best of my knowledge it's still in the 'napkin' stage.

Yes, thanks for the response.

But also, is there a patch which provides an unsigned 32 bit memory address
space for each process? (as opposed to a signed 32 bit address, which I'm
finding in all the 2.2.x kernel updates)

So the maximum amount of addressable memory would be 4 GB.

Thanks again,

Ross Mikosh
mikosh@austin.ibm.com

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