linux-kernel - Re: Why is "Memory split" Kconfig option only for EMBEDDED?

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Date:	Wed, 06 Dec 2006 12:58:19 +0100
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Norbert Kiesel <nkiesel@...networks.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why is "Memory split" Kconfig option only for EMBEDDED?

On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 12:42 +0100, Norbert Kiesel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I remember reading on LKML some time ago that using VMSPLIT_3G_OPT would
> be optimal for a machine with exactly 1GB memory (like my current
> desktop). Why is that option only prompted for after selecting EMBEDDED
> (which I normally don't select for desktop machines

because it changes the userspace ABI and has some other caveats.... this
is not something you should muck with lightly 

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