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YuriFeb 17, 2010 11:53 am 
Bill MoranFeb 17, 2010 12:01 pm 
Erik TrulssonFeb 17, 2010 12:23 pm 
YuriFeb 17, 2010 3:59 pm 
Chuck SwigerFeb 17, 2010 4:51 pm 
Subject:Re: Is it possible to see memory over 3GB on 32-bit FreeBSD?
From:Yuri (yu@rawbw.com)
Date:Feb 17, 2010 3:59:15 pm
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-questions

Erik Trulsson wrote:

It very much depends on what hardware you have in the system. Just about every expansion card or I/O device will reserve some of the address space for its own use. Some devices will need a lot of space - a graphics card with 256MB of RAM on it will use (at least) 256MB of the address space for example.

This doesn't seem like a good idea that video memory is always mapped to system memory. What if one day graphics card gets 4GB RAM? Then we won't even be able to have 32-bit OS working with such card and in 64-bit OS 4GB of memory would be grossly wasted.