From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: "werner" <werner@sys-linux.yi.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Regressions in the last kernels
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:18:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080614141805.30cf74f0@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1213467969.31034@sys-linux.yi.org>
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:26:09 -0300 (GFT)
"werner" <werner@sys-linux.yi.org> wrote:
> During preparation and own testing for my distro; installation on
> computers for neighbours, by reclamations by users, I learned about
> the following problems of 2.6.26-rcX :
>
> 1) When compiling for i486, one cannot select/configurate more
> memory than 4 GB, menuconfig don't show items with higher values. My
> own computer/server has 8 GB, but when I compile the kernel with 4 GB
> and i486 then 'free' shows only 3.2 GB (no shared grafics, the grafic
> card has its own memory) ...
interesting problem... 486's didn't have PAE so are limited to 4Gb of
memory... makes this a policy question more than a bug...
(in fact, if you configure for > 4Gb a 486 CPU will not boot... so
arguably the new behavior is correct!!!)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-14 21:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-14 18:26 werner
2008-06-14 20:25 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-06-14 21:18 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2008-06-15 5:03 ` Rene Herman
2008-06-15 6:29 ` David Newall
2008-06-15 11:01 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-06-15 14:52 ` David Newall
2008-06-15 17:31 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
[not found] <1213483422.8768@copaya.yi.org>
2008-06-15 10:37 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
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