From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
Subject: Re: Regressions in the last kernels
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:01:42 +0200
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On Sunday, 15 of June 2008, David Newall wrote:
> werner wrote:
> > During preparation and own testing for my distro; installation on computers
> > for neighbours, by reclamations by users, I learned about the following
> > problems of 2.6.26-rcX :  
> >
> > 1) When compiling for i486,  one cannot select/configurate more memory than
> > 4 GB, menuconfig don't show items with higher values. 
> >   
> 
> Is not the i486 limited to a 4GB address space?

The point, if I understand it correctly, is that if you compile the kernel for
i486 and then run it on something that does support PAE, it will only see
4 GB of RAM.

Thanks,
Rafael
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