Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932605AbWAJUnB (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:43:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932609AbWAJUnB (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:43:01 -0500 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:42880 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932605AbWAJUnA (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:43:00 -0500 Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:42:40 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Mikael Pettersson cc: Jens Axboe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: 2G memory split In-Reply-To: <17347.47882.735057.154898@alkaid.it.uu.se> Message-ID: References: <20060110125852.GA3389@suse.de> <17347.47882.735057.154898@alkaid.it.uu.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 755 Lines: 21 >2G/2G is not the only viable alternative. On my 1GB x86 box I'm >using "lowmem1g" patches for both 2.4 and 2.6, which results in >2.75G for user-space. I'm sure others have other preferences. >Any standard option for this should either have several hard-coded >alternatives, or should support arbitrary values (within reason). > >(See http://www.csd.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/patches/*/patch-i386-lowmem1g-* >if you're interested.) Hm, Con Kolivas also provided a lowmem1g patch in his set... Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/