Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clarify i386/Kconfig explanation of the HIGHMEM config
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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
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On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 10:37 -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
> > +	  1 Gigabyte or more total physical RAM, answer "off" here.
> > 
> 
> I don't think your proposed wording (1 gigabyte or more) versus (more
> than 1 gigabyte) doesn't really change the sense of this.
> 
> If we want to be even more explicit about this, then if the CPU level
> selected by the user is greater than Pentium-M (or whatever is was the
> oldest CPU that didn't have NX support --- Arjan?) 

later pentium M's do support PAE (for NX). Only the very first ones did
not. Celerons might not either.. but PPro and later generally have
pae...


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