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Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 13:09:58 -0700
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: HIGHMEM4G config for 1GB RAM on desktop?
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--On Wednesday, August 04, 2004 12:51:29 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:

> "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I had a patch for a config option, ported forward by someone at IBM (I forget
>>  who, possibly Dave) from Andrea's original. I think we finally decided 
>>  (in consultation with Andrea) we could drop the complicated stuff he had
>>  in the asm code, so it's pretty simple ... something like this:
> 
> I sent such a patch to the boss many moons ago and he said "go away, this
> is a vendor-only thing". 

Yeah, I know. But then he hates 4/4 split even more, and going to 2/2 is
a trivial way to solve the 64GB machines ;-)

Maybe I should embed it in an ioctl patch for a mouse driver?
/me runs like hell.

M.