Booting questions ....

[John Baldwin]

On Friday 12 November 2004 04:27 am, Marc Olzheim wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 08:25:33AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> > Note that amd64 uses PAE, so if you want an amd64 version that can do
> > more than 4 GB you will have to handle PAE.
>
> Erhm... You're talking about amd64 running in i386 mode perhaps. Why
> would amd64 in native 64-bit mode need PAE ?

PAE is how native 64-bit mode does paging.  Basically an extended PAE.  
Perhaps there's a kind of flat mode for 64-bit mode, but I don't think there 
is.  In the kernel we use a psuedo flat-mode by having a direct-mapped region 
ala the K0seg on Alpha.

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