Fw: 4.9-RELEASE/i386 and >4 GB RAM?

[Dr.PXie]

there are many ports unavailable on the 4.11-release-p26 if you install a new system.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Tibor" <tibor at tibor.org>
To: <freebsd-isp at freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 11:13 PM
Subject: Re: 4.9-RELEASE/i386 and >4 GB RAM?


> On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Felix J. Ogris wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> are there any issues with FreeBSD 4.9 on a dual Xeon 2.8 GHz with more than
>> 4 Gig of RAM? pae(4) says that 4.9 was the first release with PAE support.
>> So I am little bit concerned about driver and overall stability. At least,
>> we need working isp/ispfw, ciss, em, and smp/apic.
>> Any comments, ideas, caveats? Updating to 6.2 is currently not an option :-(
> 
> You could upgrade to 4.11.  I have a couple of FreeBSD servers that I need 
> to keep on 4.x for certain reasons and I've got them running 
> 4.11-RELEASE-p26.  I don't have any experience with PAE though, so I can't 
> comment on that.
> 
> Mike
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