12GB RAM with DfBSD?

[Filip Wuytack]

Emiel Kollof wrote:
On Wednesday 07 September 2005 11:22, Filip Wuytack wrote:

Hi all,
But I was wondering before I start playing around if DF can address the full  
12GB at all in it's current  state? Or do I have to use any tricks? If i 
would get it run, I'm happy to do any benchmarks or stress tests with df if 
there's an interest... 


AFAICR, DragonFly doesn't do PAE, so more than 4 GB won't be addressable. I 
don't know of any plans to implement PAE though. It's kind of a bitch to do 
for IA32. It also doesn't do 64-bit long mode yet, but if we did, 12GB would 
be perfectly okay :)

Cheers,
Emiel
Thanks. I'll have to stick to FreeBSD then... :(

Do know when DragonFly would support 64-bit? Can DF easily be ported to 
AMD64 (have any of the changes the DF team to their 4.x FBSD kernel made 
this step more trivial) or does it come down to a full rewrite of DF for 
64bit?

It seems to me that their natural target, servers, will in the near 
future more often then not be configured with > 4GB.

~ Filip