Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 06:32:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 06:31:50 -0500 Received: from f184.law7.hotmail.com ([216.33.237.184]:9229 "EHLO hotmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 06:31:38 -0500 X-Originating-IP: [172.139.57.60] From: "Nayyer Tiger" To: faheemullahkhan101@aol.com, zohair420@hotmail.com, danish4000@hotmail.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 15:31:32 +0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Mar 2002 11:31:33.0211 (UTC) FILETIME=[74AB0AB0:01C1CE70] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greetings all, I see that in the very latest Configure.help version, 2.76, available at http:/www.tuxedo.org/~esr/cml2/ Eric has decided to follow the following standard: IEC 60027-2, Second edition, 2000-11, Letter symbols to be used in electrical technology - Part 2: Telecommunications and electronics. and has changed all the abbreviations for Kilobyte (KB) to KiB, Megabyte (MB) to MiB, etc, etc. Now, granted that this is the "standard", should there be some discussion related to this change, or is everyone comfortable with this? It certainly made me do a double take. Here is a snippet from the diff between versions 2.75 and 2.76 of Configure.help: @@ -344,8 +344,8 @@ If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with more than 960 megabytes of total physical RAM, answer "off" here (default choice and suitable for most users). This will result in a - "3GB/1GB" split: 3GB are mapped so that each process sees a 3GB - virtual memory space and the remaining part of the 4GB virtual memory + "3GiB/1GiB" split: 3GiB are mapped so that each process sees a 3GiB + virtual memory space and the remaining part of the 4GiB virtual memory space is used by the kernel to permanently map as much physical memory as possible. Steven - 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/ _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. - 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/