Re: 32/48-bit virtual addressing in 20/32/36/52-bit physical addressing -- last addition ...

[b.j.smith at ieee.org (Bryan J. Smith)]

On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 22:50 -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> AMD Architecture Programmer's Manual Volume 2:  System Programming
> http://www.amd.com/us-
> en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/24593.pdf
>   ...  
> [ SIDE NOTE:  A future x86-64 processor will offer a full 52-bit
> physical addressing.  For now, it's 40-bit -- i.e., the physical
> limitation of the EV6 interconnect.  ;-> ]

Before someone screams I didn't back that last part up ...

Page 31 (and countless other parts of the manual):  

  "Implementations can support fewer than 52 physical-address
   bits.  The first implementation of the x86-64 architecture, for
   example, supports 40-bit physical addressing in both long mode
   and legacy mode."


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