From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
To: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com,
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, mangoo@wpkg.org,
daniel.blueman@gmail.com, bstanoszek@comtime.com,
dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com, hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
hugh@veritas.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.32-rc3: low mem - only 378MB on x86_32 with 64GB. Why?
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 13:01:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200910061301.39221.elendil@planet.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200910061106.33718.tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com>
Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
>> In fact, I wish more people did that, just so that we'd get better
>> coverage of the 32-bit compat code. We occasionally find issues there,
>> although I think it's getting rarer.
>
> Maybe convince some distro to offer this setup as an option at least? I
> always wondered why no one has, or maybe I missed it.
Debian has a 64-bit kernel for its 32-bit "i386" architecture (and also for
its 64-bit "amd64" architecture obviously):
- for stable: http://packages.debian.org/lenny/linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64
- for unstable: http://packages.debian.org/sid/linux-image-2.6.30-2-amd64
Cheers,
FJP
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-06 11:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-05 15:57 2.6.32-rc3: low mem - only 378MB on x86_32 with 64GB. Why? Jeff Chua
2009-10-05 18:12 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <b6a2187b0910051715y4ee63503y148ba2d7e24cad8e@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-06 0:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-06 10:06 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2009-10-06 11:01 ` Frans Pop [this message]
2009-10-14 21:32 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-10-06 12:59 ` David Woodhouse
2009-10-06 14:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-11 9:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
[not found] ` <b6a2187b0910052312o662642b2teded3d19548b9151@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-06 14:35 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <b6a2187b0910080926x303d3c9em8f70632fb19b6509@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-08 16:35 ` Dave Hansen
[not found] ` <b6a2187b0910090928r648169dax86178a3e8b8c2f21@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-10 18:10 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-10-10 18:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-11 9:06 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-10-11 17:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-06 16:50 ` Yuhong Bao
2009-10-05 18:42 ` Byron Stanoszek
2009-10-05 19:15 ` Dave Hansen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-10-05 19:42 Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-10-05 20:31 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
[not found] <drYiu-Pj-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
2009-10-05 20:05 ` Daniel J Blueman
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