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SubjectRe: Problem with 1G RAM
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Followup to:  <E0zlshT-0002u3-00@devel2.axiom.internal>
By author: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
>
> tymm@coe.missouri.edu said:
> > include/asm/page.h isn't the most intuitive place to look :) )
>
> Indeed. I knew it was somewhere, but couldn't find it. No wonder the author of
> the original question couldn't!
>
>
> > ... Or
> > even have it as a configuration option (with appropriate warnings, of
> > course)
>
> We did once, but it was taken out because so many people set it to 64Mb and
> wondered why it stopped working. However, if we do something like...
>
> bool 'Support for over 1Gb of physical memory' CONFIG_BIGRAM
> if [ "$CONFIG_BIGRAM" != n ]; then
> int 'Maximum memory size (read Documentation/i386/bigram.txt)' CONFIG_MEMSIZE
> fi
>
>
> then that's much less likely to happen.
>

Or just make it a selection box... there aren't really that many
useful levels; say 1 GB, 1.5 GB, 2 GB.

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