Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 13 Oct 2000 14:59:54 -0400 (EDT) | From | <> | Subject | Re: large memory support for x86 |
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On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Sure it does, just like segments let 16-bit apps access more than 64KB of > memory. If you have two selectors, each one can point to a different physical > base address, and IIRC, the size of the physical address base can be 36 bits. > That gives you 16 physically contiguous 4GB memory blocks.
No. The segment base and length is confined to the 32 bit address space mapped by page tables.
-ben
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