From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: werner <werner@sys-linux.yi.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Regressions in the last kernels
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 07:03:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4854A2A4.7090900@keyaccess.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080614141805.30cf74f0@infradead.org>
On 14-06-08 23:18, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:26:09 -0300 (GFT)
> "werner" <werner@sys-linux.yi.org> wrote:
>> 1) When compiling for i486, one cannot select/configurate more
>> memory than 4 GB, menuconfig don't show items with higher values. My
>> own computer/server has 8 GB, but when I compile the kernel with 4 GB
>> and i486 then 'free' shows only 3.2 GB (no shared grafics, the grafic
>> card has its own memory) ...
>
>
> interesting problem... 486's didn't have PAE so are limited to 4Gb of
> memory... makes this a policy question more than a bug...
> (in fact, if you configure for > 4Gb a 486 CPU will not boot... so
> arguably the new behavior is correct!!!)
What's arguable about it?
Rene.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-15 5:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-14 18:26 Regressions in the last kernels werner
2008-06-14 20:25 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-06-14 21:18 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-06-15 5:03 ` Rene Herman [this message]
2008-06-15 6:29 ` David Newall
2008-06-15 11:01 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-06-15 14:52 ` David Newall
2008-06-15 17:31 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
[not found] <1213483422.8768@copaya.yi.org>
2008-06-15 10:37 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
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