Messages in this thread | | | From | Alistair John Strachan <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Clarify i386/Kconfig explanation of the HIGHMEM config options | Date | Thu, 14 Dec 2006 19:58:40 +0000 |
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On Thursday 14 December 2006 15:37, Theodore Tso wrote: > > + 1 Gigabyte or more total physical RAM, answer "off" here. > > I don't think your proposed wording (1 gigabyte or more) versus (more > than 1 gigabyte) doesn't really change the sense of this.
It does, because if you have exactly 1G of RAM, you should be using CONFIG_HIGHMEM, otherwise you will only be able to see ~896M.
This is >1G versus >=1G, the latter is clearly more correct.
-- Cheers, Alistair.
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