On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 09:16 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > The 900MB refered to the boundary between NORMAL and HIGHMEM on i386.
>
> Yikes. So any system with 1MB
1G, but yes.
> will need to have highmem? I guess the 2G/2G
> config option changes that?
but that breaks userspace ABI and things that really want a lot of
memory ;)
Thankfully x86-64 is there, and just about all systems sold today do 64
bit..
(and highmem is not that bad.. you make it sound as if it's a dirty
word. It's not pretty but it's not THAT evil either)
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