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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

  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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