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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:22:44 +0100
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: 2G memory split
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On Tue, Jan 10 2006, Mark Lord wrote:
> Jens Axboe wrote:
> ..
> >+choice
> >+	depends on NOHIGHMEM
> 
> Is that dependency strictly needed here?

Probably not. Well at least it could be relaxed, I just wanted to be
safe and avoid any extra complications due to this.

> (Mark hurriedly applies patch and rebuilds kernel on 2G notebook..)

You may want to change the 2G split to 0x78000000 as noted by Byron,
then you can skip highmem completely if you so wanted.

-- 
Jens Axboe