Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751058AbWELHnZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 May 2006 03:43:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751059AbWELHnZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 May 2006 03:43:25 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:33701 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751056AbWELHnY convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 May 2006 03:43:24 -0400 Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 00:40:25 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: "J.A. =?ISO-8859-1?B?TWFnYWxs824i?= "@osdl.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.17-rc3-mm1 Message-Id: <20060512004025.73ab433d.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060512092538.6c3ee3de@werewolf.auna.net> References: <20060501014737.54ee0dd5.akpm@osdl.org> <20060512092538.6c3ee3de@werewolf.auna.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 853 Lines: 22 "J.A. Magall?n" wrote: > > On Mon, 1 May 2006 01:47:37 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.17-rc3/2.6.17-rc3-mm1/ > > > > I have just noticed that the support for 1Gb low mem has been dropped. > Any poblems, is it considered a disgusting hack or just by acccident ? > It's risky and breaks stuff and caused Andi to go on an extensive debugging session because someone diddled with it. So we hid it behind CONFIG_EMBEDDED, which has kinda come to mean CONFIG_YOU_DONT_WANT_TO_FUTZ_WITH_THIS_STUFF. - 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/