Re: Testing bigmem properly on amd64?

2010-04-15 Thread Peter Kay (Syllopsium)
From: "Henning Brauer" * Peter [2010-04-15 03:27]: I know bigmem is still in a state of flux and can be enabled by editing machdep.c and compiling a custom kernel. What's the best way to test and report this? none. bigmem is known broken, otherwise it would be enabled by default. and tests pr

Re: Testing bigmem properly on amd64?

2010-04-15 Thread Henning Brauer
* Peter [2010-04-15 03:27]: > I know bigmem is still in a state of flux and can be enabled by > editing machdep.c and compiling a custom kernel. > What's the best way to test and report this? none. bigmem is known broken, otherwise it would be enabled by default. and tests proving the fact, well,

Testing bigmem properly on amd64?

2010-04-14 Thread Peter
I know bigmem is still in a state of flux and can be enabled by editing machdep.c and compiling a custom kernel. I also realise that it may or may not work on OpenBSD AMD64 due to the absence of an iommu on non VT-d capable Intel systems, aside from the AGP/PCI-e GART. What's the best way to