Re: [PATCH] Clarify i386/Kconfig explanation of the HIGHMEM config options

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On Thursday 14 December 2006 15:37, Theodore Tso wrote:
> > +	  1 Gigabyte or more total physical RAM, answer "off" here.
>
> I don't think your proposed wording (1 gigabyte or more) versus (more
> than 1 gigabyte) doesn't really change the sense of this.

It does, because if you have exactly 1G of RAM, you should be using 
CONFIG_HIGHMEM, otherwise you will only be able to see ~896M.

This is >1G versus >=1G, the latter is clearly more correct.

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

Final year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
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