Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:37:54 -0500 | From | Theodore Tso <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Clarify i386/Kconfig explanation of the HIGHMEM config options |
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> + 1 Gigabyte or more total physical RAM, answer "off" here. >
I don't think your proposed wording (1 gigabyte or more) versus (more than 1 gigabyte) doesn't really change the sense of this.
If we want to be even more explicit about this, then if the CPU level selected by the user is greater than Pentium-M (or whatever is was the oldest CPU that didn't have NX support --- Arjan?) we shouldn't offer this choice at all, and force CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G. We can give the user a choice if CONFIG_EMBEDDED is enabled, but otherwise, if the CPU level is new enough, I think we can safely make the argument that for nearly all systems, they have enough memory and speed that perhaps we should just simply always use HIGHMEM64G.
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