Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 08:14:24PM -0400, Nathanael Hoyle wrote:
>
>> Just to be clear, since you say i386 (I presume you mean architecture),
>> I believe the Physical Address Extensions which allowed 2MB Page Size
>> bit to be set was introduced with Pentium Pro. Processors prior to this
>> were limited to standard 4KB pages.
>>
>
> PSE != PAE != PSE36. Pentium Pro sounds about right though.
>
> Joerg
>
Thanks for the clarification/correction. PSE does not depend on PAE,
though both were introduced at roughly the same time (appears PSE was
introduced silently in Pentium, officially in Pentium Pro). I definitely
wasn't thinking of PSE36, which was the Pentium III.
-Nathanael
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