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From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> He's running the -aa kernel, which has all the right bits for this too.
> In fact in some ways for very large memory boxes its probably the better
> variant

If you're willing to merge a patch to take -ac up to rmap15b
I'll integrate some large memory stuff into my tree for 15c
and 2.4-ac should be able to handle large boxes too within a
month or so.

(keeping the speed of merging slow, deliberately)

regards,

Rik
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