Bryan J. Smith wrote: >On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 07:42 -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > > >>I'll find it. It was from a gentlemen from AMD that discussed it in a >>thread right after Intel announced EM64T. Linus & co. were talking >>about how EM64T is still using a 32-bit platform underneath. The AMD >>gentlemen commented how they a few vendors had a BIOS option "Linux" for >>the memory access, and the Linux kernel could support linear addressing >>above 4GB. >> >> > >Ack, it doesn't appear to be directly in the 2004Feb17 thread: > http://kerneltrap.org/node/2466 > >There are a few comments on how the Athlon differs from Intel because of >the Alpha EV6, but not the more technical detail I was referring to. > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=107759901509280&w=2 The Linux option in bios is mentioned here. >Again, to get this "mode" you have to: >a) Tell the BIOS to enable a "Linux" memory mode >b) Have a Linux kernel (Linux/x86-64 I believe?) that supports it > >Yes, that's a modification of the Linux/x86-64 kernel running on a "32- >bit" Athlon, because it offers the extended, linear memory addressing >and other memory management. > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=107757492125437&w=2 I think what Bryan here is talking about is called IOMMU by the kernel guys.