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Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:21:44 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> To: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com> CC: Rajkumar S <rajkumars@...il.com>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: HIGHMEM64G Kernel (2.6.23.1) makes system crawl Boaz Harrosh wrote: > > From looking in source code the CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is broken in many respects, > in my opinion. It's really a 64-bit with 32-bit quirks enabled. Does it even > run on None 64-bit machines? Not many! > Total and utter bullsh*t. It runs on virtually all modern x86's since the P6/K7 (certain Pentium M chips being an exception). Also, it is required for NX protection and for several of the paravirt environments to work. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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