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| author | jake <jake@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-04-25 18:51:29 +0000 |
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| committer | jake <jake@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-04-25 18:51:29 +0000 |
| commit | f47e0d3774328eac462a423fdf88706ac3f89c52 (patch) | |
| tree | a9add294ac4cb411122616c2ca086f66c74bab09 /release/doc | |
| parent | 223f8458a8fa7a46a4cef431363b70e3cdfe8bb6 (diff) | |
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Mention PAE support.
Reviewed by: bmah
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
Diffstat (limited to 'release/doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/i386/proc-i386.sgml | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/i386/proc-i386.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/i386/proc-i386.sgml index cc91c12..a7c5dac 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/i386/proc-i386.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/i386/proc-i386.sgml @@ -49,6 +49,14 @@ <varname>machdep.hlt_cpus</varname> sysctl variable. The &man.smp.4; manual page has more details.</para> + <para>&os; will take advantage of Physical Address Extensions (PAE) + support on CPUs that support this feature. A kernel with the + <literal>PAE</literal> feature enabled will detect memory above + 4 gigabytes and allow it to be used by the system. This feature + places constraints on the device drivers and other features of + &os; which may be used; consult the &man.pae.4; manpage for more + details.</para> + <para>&os; will generally run on i386-based laptops, albeit with varying levels of support for certain hardware features such as sound, graphics, power management, and PCCARD expansion slots. |
