Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751896AbXFKTEE (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:04:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753962AbXFKTDz (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:03:55 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:59700 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752803AbXFKTDy (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:03:54 -0400 Message-ID: <466D9C00.6030608@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:01:20 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt CC: Dave Jones , Andrew Morton , Andy Whitcroft , Steve Fox , Mel Gorman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] move the kernel to 16MB for NUMA-Q References: <466D550C.4030600@shadowen.org> <63a08cc7547f14065becdf9a94d0d529@pinky> <20070611091558.f468f205.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070611172006.GI9174@redhat.com> <466D882D.70001@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 742 Lines: 20 Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Jun 11 2007 10:36, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Picking the 16 MB base is a bit obnoxious on small-memory machines, 4 MB >> would probably be a more reasonable base. Of course, 16 MB would avoid >> the issue of the handful of machines with memory holes at 15-16 MB. > > How will this work at all with a 5 MB machine? Does current kernels work at all on a 5 MB machine? (I used Linux on a 5 MB machine many years ago, but modern kernels are a different issue...) -hpa - 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/