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From: Jarry <jarry@×××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 20:43:06
Message-Id: 42E3FC40.3000705@gmx.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory by Mark Shields
1 Mark Shields wrote:
2 > No I do not, as I was under the impression it's not required unless
3 > you have at least 4gb (sorry for the poor formatting, copying from
4 > putty/terminal to a text box doesn't format very well):
5
6 Actually, help says:
7
8 CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM:
9
10 > If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with
11 > more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer "off" here
12
13 It looks to me, that up to 1GB (including) the answer should be "off".
14 But maybe boundary condition is not correctly defined, and for exactly
15 1GB it is necessary to select CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM = "4GB"...
16
17 Jarry
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>