Re: [BK PATCH 2.5] fs/binfmt_aout.c: Use PAGE_ALIGN_LL() on 64-bit values

Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Sun, 28 Jul 2002 20:18:22 +0100


On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 07:55:51PM +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> I thought (intel) CPUs did 48-bit addressing? How do we support 32GiB of
> RAM? With pure 32-bit addressing it would be limited to 4GiB only... No?
> (Of course I am probably confusing varius types of addresses...)

P6+ support 36bit _physical_ addressing.

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