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List:       linux-kernel
Subject:    Re: Addressing more than 2 Gig of Memory
From:       "Khimenko Victor" <khim () sch57 ! msk ! ru>
Date:       1999-07-31 16:13:02
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In <199907302018.PAA23012@fulgore.austin.ibm.com> mikosh@austin.ibm.com (mikosh@austin.ibm.com) wrote:
>>> 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.

Unfortunatelly it'll need DEEP rework of linux kernel. And by DEEP I mean
DEEP. More at http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/ ... If you really need that
much than use Alpha or Sparc...




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