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Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 23:29:22 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: bigphysarea patch question
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Hi,

What is the maximum memory that bigphysarea can support? We are using 2.4
kernel with bigphys2.4.20. )We upgraded physical ram from 1GB to 2GB and
tried to allocate 1GB for bigphysarea and the kernel didn't start.

Thanks,
m
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