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Message-Id: <496F0796.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Date:	Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:53:26 +0000
From:	"Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@...ell.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	<mingo@...e.hu>, <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: simplify HIGHMEM-related Kconfig entries

>>> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> 14.01.09 20:39 >>>
>Jan Beulich wrote:
>> Additionally remove the dependency of X86_PAE on !HIGHMEM4G - at least
>> I can't understand why that dependency existed.
>
>At least originally, the meaning of the x86 highmem entries were:
>
>	No highmem	- No highmem, no PAE
>	HIGHMEM4G	- Highmem, no PAE
>	HIGHMEM64G	- Highmem, PAE
>
>So X86_PAE and HIGHMEM4G is a bit of a contradiction.  I haven't looked 
>at the logic in detail, or remember offhand if there have been any 
>weakening of the definitions above; e.g. someone could have implemented 
>a way to do PAE without highmem, to get access to the NX bits.

Exactly - .23 made PAE an independently selectable option (in particular,
the no-highmem+PAE combination is now valid), but I can't see why it
added the !HIGHMEM4G dependency.

Jan

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