Messages in this thread | | | From | mikosh@austin ... | Subject | Re: Addressing more than 2 Gig of Memory | Date | Fri, 30 Jul 99 15:18:12 CDT |
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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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