On 14-06-08 23:18, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:26:09 -0300 (GFT)
> "werner" <werner@sys-linux.yi.org> wrote:

>> 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!!!)

What's arguable about it?

Rene.