Re: Testing bigmem properly on amd64?

2010-04-15 Thread Henning Brauer
* Peter syllops...@syllopsium.com [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

Re: Testing bigmem properly on amd64?

2010-04-15 Thread Peter Kay (Syllopsium)
From: Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de * Peter syllops...@syllopsium.com [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

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