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On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> >  will need to have highmem? I guess the 2G/2G 
> > config option changes that?
> 
> but that breaks userspace ABI and things that really want a lot of
> memory ;)

Really? What things does it break? Sorry about my i386 ignorance.

> Thankfully x86-64 is there, and just about all systems sold today do 64
> bit.. 

Right but then some binary stuff is only available for 32 bit.