Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Jun 2007 19:41:56 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: divorce CONFIG_X86_PAE from CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G |
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On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 19:35:51 -0700 William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote:
> PAE is useful for more than supporting more than 4GB RAM. It supports > expanded swapspace and NX executable protections. Some users may want > NX or expanded swapspace support without the overhead or instability > of highmem. For these reasons, the following patch divorces > CONFIG_X86_PAE from CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G.
Do (CONFIG_X86_PAE && !CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G) and (!CONFIG_X86_PAE && CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G) kernels actually work? I wouldn't be surprised if there are places where we used the incorrect one. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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