On Thursday 04 July 2013 15:48:07 Viesturs Lācis did opine:

> 2013/7/4 Gene Heskett <[email protected]>
> 
> > Greetings;  I just put 8Gb of dram in this machine, and the bios
> > recognized it just fine.
> > 
> > But the 32 bit SMP/PAE kernel in the LinuxCNC tree only sees 4 Gb.
> 
> Am I missing something? I have always thought that this is the exact
> reason why people are using 64 bit OSes - 32 bit do not recognize more
> than 4 gb of ram. AFAIK 32 bit windows will report no more than 3,2 gb,
> when there are 4 gb or more installed in motherboard, I do not know
> about Linux. Are there any differences?

Your are probably, highly likely, correct, Viesturs.  But we don't have a 
64 bit kernel that will run LCNC just yet that I know of. Did I get stoned 
and miss the announcement?

I am hoping that will not be the case by the time LCNC 2.6 is out for real.

Cheers, Gene
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