On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 07:35:51PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> + PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables
>> + larger swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It
>> + has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also
>> + consumes more pagetable space per process.
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 01:52:35AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> It's not specific to this help text, but I start becoming a bit picky
> about this issues:
> If you understand this help text after reading it, you don't need a help
> text for this option... ;-)
> What is "NX support"?
> What are "non-overcommit purposes"?
> What is "pagetable lookup overhead"?
> And if in doubt, should I say Y or N?
> "System administrator who knows which hardware components he put into
> the computer and which filesystems his data is on" might be a good
> description for the average kconfig user, and these are the people who
> should understand this help text.
I would like to have some place to explain issues such as those, but
there are as of yet no designated places for tutorial-level information.
If such a place were provided, I would provide storybook commentary to
explain all those. Similarly actually holds for kernel function docbook.
-- wli
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