On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 12:16 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Of course the strange bit is that it says it has 36bit physical > address with 32bit virtual address, which would require a PAE capable > CPU.
36bit physical addressing here probably refers to PSE36[0], which was a different, pre-PAE, mechanism for using large physical addresses. I believe that there were indeed processors which had PSE but not PAE. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSE-36 Ian. -- Ian Campbell BOFH excuse #125: we just switched to Sprint.
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