Re: pre4aa1 contig kmaps patch

rwhron
2002-01-23T13:28:10Z

On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 07:29:08PM +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote:
>
> It didn't boot in my 1GB user virtual, 2GB physical memory,
> PAE testing (yes, PAE with <= 4GB physical memory is not optimal,
> but should work for testing). I was confused when I tried that,

What I found is with 2.4.18pre4aa1 vanilla, when CONFIG_2G=y and
CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y, my system stops booting with:

Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.

With Hugh's patch, 2.4.18pre4aa1 will boot with CONFIG_2G=y
and CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y, which is good.

In my previous testing with the 1-2-3-gb patch, I always
had CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y.

Based on these findings, I think inclusion of Hugh's patch
is a good thing.
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Randy Hron