Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:18:05 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: Regressions in the last kernels |
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On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:26:09 -0300 (GFT) "werner" <werner@sys-linux.yi.org> wrote:
> During preparation and own testing for my distro; installation on > computers for neighbours, by reclamations by users, I learned about > the following problems of 2.6.26-rcX : > > 1) When compiling for i486, one cannot select/configurate more > memory than 4 GB, menuconfig don't show items with higher values. My > own computer/server has 8 GB, but when I compile the kernel with 4 GB > and i486 then 'free' shows only 3.2 GB (no shared grafics, the grafic > card has its own memory) ...
interesting problem... 486's didn't have PAE so are limited to 4Gb of memory... makes this a policy question more than a bug... (in fact, if you configure for > 4Gb a 486 CPU will not boot... so arguably the new behavior is correct!!!)
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