[email protected] wrote:
From: Theodore Tso <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 10:17:45AM -0500
Remove an (incorrect) assertion that NOHIGHMEM is right for more
users, since most systems are coming with at least 1G of memory these
days, and even some laptops have up 4G of memory.
Given this (on a system with 1G of memory, this option shouldn't be
used)
If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with
- more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer "off" here (default
- choice and suitable for most users). This will result in a "3GB/1GB"
- split: 3GB are mapped so that each process sees a 3GB virtual memory
- space and the remaining part of the 4GB virtual memory space is used
- by the kernel to permanently map as much physical memory as
- possible.
+ more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer "off" here.
wouldn't
+ 1 Gigabyte or more total physical RAM, answer "off" here.
make clearer that even with 1G memory, you shouldn't use this option?
Since 1G is quite common, we should, IMHO, be clear about that case.
Actually, if you want it to be perfectly clear to people who don't keep
x86 spec sheets in the bathroom for spare time study, a redundant config
option for NX would be required. Then the logic would be:
PAE = MEM>4G || NX
as far as the actual build was concerned. Or you could reject NX in
config unless PAE was selected.
I don't think you will avoid confusion when you have two unrelated
reasons for enabling the same feature.
--
bill davidsen <[email protected]>
CTO TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
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