On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 07:42 am, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >2G/2G is not the only viable alternative. On my 1GB x86 box I'm
> >using "lowmem1g" patches for both 2.4 and 2.6, which results in
> >2.75G for user-space. I'm sure others have other preferences.
> >Any standard option for this should either have several hard-coded
> >alternatives, or should support arbitrary values (within reason).
> >
> >(See http://www.csd.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/patches/*/patch-i386-lowmem1g-*
> >if you're interested.)
>
> Hm, Con Kolivas also provided a lowmem1g patch in his set...
I was under the impression that breaking the ABI was a nono and such a patch
would never be considered for mainline. Guess I was wrong. However mine only
offered a split suitable for 1GB of ram whereas this is offering all that and
steak knives too.
Cheers,
Con
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