From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Mark de Vries <m.devries@nl.tiscali.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: About highmem in 2.6
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 22:48:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41130000.1076568516@[10.10.2.4]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <402A7EC6.7010003@nl.tiscali.com>
> I've been using this patch for a while now on my box (with 1GB):
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.23aa1/00_3.5G-address-space-5
> (kernel is 'vanilla' otherwise)
>
> This allows you to use your full 1GB w/out highmem support.... (2G/2G user/kernel addr space split, or something..)
>
> Anything (potentially) wrong/bad about this patch??
The only problem is that you lose some virtual address space for the user,
which isn't a problem for most people.
> Is there a simmilar patch for 2.6??
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mbligh/patches/2.6.2/2.6.2-mjb1/212-config_page_offset
You might have to tweak the config stuff a tiny bit to get the patch to apply
if you don't have 4/4 split in.
M.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-12 6:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <1o7AZ-3PD-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-02-11 19:13 ` Mark de Vries
2004-02-11 19:28 ` Bongani Hlope
2004-02-12 4:02 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-02-12 16:07 ` Brandon Low
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.58.0402120945340.1009@fgevxr.nfculk.yna>
2004-02-14 1:54 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-02-12 6:48 ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2004-02-11 17:47 Luis Miguel García
2004-02-11 18:44 ` Dave McCracken
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