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DateThu, 19 Jul 2007 10:46:31 -0400
FromDave Jones <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH for review] [7/48] i386: divorce CONFIG_X86_PAE from CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 03:48:36PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:

> Some users may want NX
> or expanded swapspace support without the overhead or instability of
> highmem.

NX is still going to need the larger PTEs, so I don't see how this
change removes any 'overhead' or potential 'instability'.
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with the change, but this part
of the changelog seems to be false advertising.

Dave

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