Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:52:35 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: divorce CONFIG_X86_PAE from CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G |
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On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 07:35:51PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >... > config X86_PAE >... > + help > + PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables > + larger swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It > + has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also > + consumes more pagetable space per process. >...
It's not specific to this help text, but I start becoming a bit picky about this issues:
If you understand this help text after reading it, you don't need a help text for this option... ;-)
What is "NX support"? What are "non-overcommit purposes"? What is "pagetable lookup overhead"?
And if in doubt, should I say Y or N?
"System administrator who knows which hardware components he put into the computer and which filesystems his data is on" might be a good description for the average kconfig user, and these are the people who should understand this help text.
cu Adrian
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