[FAQ] Wrong size of supported maximum RAM

Benjamin Kaduk kaduk at MIT.EDU
Thu Jan 22 17:45:28 UTC 2015


On Thu, 22 Jan 2015, Torsten Zuehlsdorff wrote:

> On 21.01.2015 19:57, Allan Jude wrote:
> > On 2015-01-21 13:55, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> > > On Wed, 21 Jan 2015, Torsten Zuehlsdorff wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > the FAQ says in chapter 4.1.2:
> > > > "AMD64 platforms currently deployed support up to 1 TB of physical
> > > > memory."
> > > >
> > > > This is currently no longer true since 10.0. There it was raised to 4
> > > > TB. Have
> > > > a look at:
> > > > https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.0R/relnotes.html
> > > >
> > > > Chapter 2.2, fourth paragraph. Can somebody update this?
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, the release notes are immutable after the release.
> > >
> > > The statement in question does not appear to be present in the 10.1
> > > release notes, so it is possible that no action is needed.
> > >
> > > -Ben Kaduk
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> > He is asking that the FAQ be changed, based on the release notes.
>
> Yes :)

Sorry I misread you, and thank you Allan for the correction.

> And i currently noticed, that i should submit this to the bugtracker. If
> somebody can point me to the source of the FAQ i will provide a patch.

The relevant source file/location is around here:
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/doc/head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml?revision=45497&view=markup#l1485

-Ben


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