for remind .. LINUS words about HIGHMEN and why wee need forget 32bit x86 http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/highmem.html On 7 September 2015 at 13:30, Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@suse.de> wrote:
Hello,
On Sep 7 07:23 James Knott wrote (excerpt):
On 09/07/2015 02:08 AM, Michal Kubecek wrote:
You should realize a 32-bit kernel has ~896 MB of low memory
Low memory???
I thought that term went out with DOS and Windows 3.x. A 32 bit CPU can directly address 4 GB and more with PAE.
I know nothing at all about kernel memory stuff so that I stupidly hacked
32-bit kernel has ~896 MB of low memory
into Google and I got as first hit
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8252785/why-linux-kernel-zone-normal-is-l...
I guess that explains it.
Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg)
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