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[Rick Sivernell]

Lonnie

> They prolly did this because right now no OS is stable with 4 or more GB
> of RAM using a native 64bit OS with dual CPUs.  Its an unholy nightmare of
> kernel panics and IOMMU related lockups.  Until mobo vendors & the linux
> kernel clean up their act between BIOS & ACPI tables, doing 64bit SMP with
> 4+ GB RAM is nothing other than an experimental configuration.
> 
> I'm saying all this from first hand experience.  These days, about 25% of
> my work day is spent dealing with this mess.
> 

  Good to know info

cheers
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Rick Sivernell
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