RE: 2.6.31 kernel

Where can I pick up some 16TB chips to test this out, I need 4 of them. :-)


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Subject: Re: 2.6.31 kernel

Dazed_75 wrote:

> Something of an understatement? LOL
>
> *Architecture code:*
>

>    - From

>
2.6.31<http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;
a=commitdiff;h=c898faf91b3ec6b0f6efa35831b3984fa3331db0>,

>    Linux will address 2^46 instead of 2^44 bytes of RAM on x86-64 CPUs -
>    however, this currently affects very few people, as systems offering 16
>    to 64 Tbytes of RAM are still rather rare.

>

Now THAT is a useful patch. Twenty years from now. :D

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