Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 28 Oct 2005 18:40:36 +0200 | | From | Vladimir Lazarenko <> | | Subject | Re: AMD Athlon64 X2 Dual-core and 4GB |
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>>>Thus, the question - would I be able to use whole 4G RAM with dual-core amd and >>>kernel with SMP compiled for i686? > > > Why would you use a dual core AMD in 32 bit mode? Just build an x86_64 > kernel. > > If you want to use 4GB in 32 bit mode, you *need* remapping (or you lose > part of your memory). Remapping means you have MORE than 4 GB of physical > address, which means you need PAE to use it at all.
Because I find my distribution's 64-bit release reasonably unstable yet? :)
Or can I somehow build an x86_64 kernel and keep using 32-bit libc? [unhandled content-type:application/x-pkcs7-signature] |  |