Messages in this thread | | | From | Tvrtko Ursulin <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.32-rc3: low mem - only 378MB on x86_32 with 64GB. Why? | Date | Tue, 6 Oct 2009 11:06:33 +0100 |
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On Tuesday 06 October 2009 01:30:51 Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Jeff Chua wrote: > > Loud and clear. And appreciated all the replies. I think it's time for > > upgrade! > > As Byron said, it really should be sufficient to just upgrade the kernel > (I presume that you already have a CPU that is 64-bit capable: not very > many boards with old CPU's can even fit 64GB of ram). > > In fact, I wish more people did that, just so that we'd get better > coverage of the 32-bit compat code. We occasionally find issues there, > although I think it's getting rarer.
Maybe convince some distro to offer this setup as an option at least? I always wondered why no one has, or maybe I missed it.
Tvrtko
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