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Support for larger 32-bit x86 systems (those with more than eight CPUs or more than 4GB of RAM) has been removed.
What? How do you get more than 4GB of ram on a 32-bit CPU architecture? Now I need to know what kind of black magic they used for that
I vaguely remember something for Windows XP that allowed me to run more than 4GB RAM on 32-bit…
My understanding is previously the kernel would crash on systems with more RAM than the address space, so there’s now a patch to ignore the anything above the max address supported (e.g. 32bit without PAE, 36bit with PAE). More RAM was never supported, so I think the author of the article has misunderstood or oversimplified what’s been done.
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