From: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: werner <werner@sys-linux.yi.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Regressions in the last kernels
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:22:08 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48552C98.1020105@davidnewall.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200806151301.42469.rjw@sisk.pl>
Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Sunday, 15 of June 2008, David Newall wrote:
>
>> werner wrote:
>>
>>> During preparation and own testing for my distro; installation on computers
>>> for neighbours, by reclamations by users, I learned about the following
>>> problems of 2.6.26-rcX :
>>>
>>> 1) When compiling for i486, one cannot select/configurate more memory than
>>> 4 GB, menuconfig don't show items with higher values.
>>>
>>>
>> Is not the i486 limited to a 4GB address space?
>>
>
> The point, if I understand it correctly, is that if you compile the kernel for
> i486 and then run it on something that does support PAE, it will only see
> 4 GB of RAM.
Rather like compiling it for i486 and running it on ia64: you ask for an
i486, you don't get to use features beyond that CPU.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-15 14:52 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
2008-06-15 6:29 ` David Newall
2008-06-15 11:01 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-06-15 14:52 ` David Newall [this message]
2008-06-15 17:31 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
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2008-06-15 10:37 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
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