Re: Xen and memory beyond 2GB?

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%rek.tjls.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 02:06:07PM +0200, Johan Ihr?n wrote:
> 
> I'm confused. Although I've never tried it myself I've seen numerous 
> messages on various mailing lists about NetBSD/i386 on machines with 
> more than 2GB memory. I was under the impression that the limitation 
> primarily was that the i386 arch cannot address more than 2GB per 
> process. What am I missing?

What you're missing is that 2GB = 2^31, not 2^32.  The architectural
limit is 4GB, not 2GB.

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