Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Problem with 1G RAM | Date | 4 Dec 1998 19:59:20 GMT |
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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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