8 GB boot limit

[Per-Olov Sjöholm <openbsd_misc@incedo.org>]

One change between 3.4 and 3.5 is according to
http://www.openbsd.org/plus35.html:
"Major changes to the i386 master boot record, which now uses EDD if
available to support booting from a partition more than 8GB from the start
of the disk. The 8GB size limit is still in place".

Can somebody explain the last "The 8GB size limit is still in place" ?
I have until now always put my root partition at the beginning of the disk
and below 8 GB of size to avoid potential problems. I want if possible
starting with 3.5 have only a / and /var on my disk to take advantage of
the space.


I thought that OpenBSD 3.5 would handle a root partition greater that 8 GB ?
Can somebody explain this ? Is this old limit just partially fixed ?

Thanks
Peo