On 2011/10/02 07:38, Barbier, Jason wrote: > >>3. What's the point in keeping sys/arch/i386/i386/pmapae.c? Are there any > >>plans for re-enabling PAE support? > > PAE will always be needed for 32bit processors as I understand it. There are > some 32bit processors out there that the > boards will allow for more than 4 gigs of ram But you will need PAE to > actually see it. This used to be a big thing > for SQL servers before everything went 64bit on that side. So why it may not > be enabled by default its a quick option change > to enable it if you ever need it.
PAE is not used on OpenBSD/i386 and from what I remember likely never will be, just run amd64 if you want more ram. So there is probably no point keeping this.
