large pages (amd64)

[Nathanael Hoyle]

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