On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 08:12:23PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > 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
Ehm, how can PSE introduced by the Pentium III be pre-PAE (which was introduced by the Pentium Pro)? PSE may be simpler but it's still newer than PAE. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
