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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 21:42:28
Message-Id: 20050724224141.4e4a8b0a@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory by Jarry
1 On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 22:38:24 +0200, Jarry wrote:
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3 > Actually, help says:
4 >
5 > CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM:
6 >
7 > > If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with
8 > > more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer "off" here
9 >
10 > It looks to me, that up to 1GB (including) the answer should be "off".
11 > But maybe boundary condition is not correctly defined, and for exactly
12 > 1GB it is necessary to select CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM = "4GB"...
13
14 Keep reading, the next paragraph says
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16 If the machine has between 1 and 4 Gigabytes physical RAM,
17 then answer "4GB" here.
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19 The wording is ambiguous, both apply to a 1GB machine. The first should
20 say "1GB or more" instead of "more than 1GB".
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24 Neil Bothwick
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26 Bugs are Sons of Glitches