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Subject: Re: HIGHMEM4G config for 1GB RAM on desktop?
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"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com> wrote:
>
> I had a patch for a config option, ported forward by someone at IBM (I forget
>  who, possibly Dave) from Andrea's original. I think we finally decided 
>  (in consultation with Andrea) we could drop the complicated stuff he had
>  in the asm code, so it's pretty simple ... something like this:

I sent such a patch to the boss many moons ago and he said "go away, this
is a vendor-only thing".