linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: suggest running a 64bit kernel on LM capable machines with plenty memory.

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Message-ID: <20090310125007.GD11935@one.firstfloor.org>
Date:	Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:50:07 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Ozan Çağlayan <ozan@...dus.org.tr>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: suggest running a 64bit kernel on LM capable machines with plenty memory.

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:37:08AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 20:15 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > How about we do the below as well?
> > 
> > Idea looks good, but with your patch it would print two conflicting
> > messages ("use highmem64. No, use 64bit instead"), wouldn't it? 
> > Only one would be better.
> 
> Something like the below?

Looks good from the logic. Only nit would be missing grepability.

-Andi
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