From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DwnJR-0005NF-TX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 20:43:06 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6OKegI8013462; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 20:40:42 GMT Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6OKao46004259 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 20:36:50 GMT Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 24 Jul 2005 20:37:42 -0000 Received: from N486P001.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [192.168.1.20]) [62.47.4.161] by mail.gmx.net (mp023) with SMTP; 24 Jul 2005 22:37:42 +0200 X-Authenticated: #787166 Message-ID: <42E3FC40.3000705@gmx.net> Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 22:38:24 +0200 From: Jarry User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, sk Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory References: <642958cc050724124617225ab8@mail.gmail.com> <200507242202.42555.k.o.schultz@gmx.net> <642958cc050724132122b823f4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <642958cc050724132122b823f4@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: f3f1d4eb-452e-4d14-8be2-37032082a89c X-Archives-Hash: 8dca2c024192b0b9c14ab036b0c1890c Mark Shields wrote: > No I do not, as I was under the impression it's not required unless > you have at least 4gb (sorry for the poor formatting, copying from > putty/terminal to a text box doesn't format very well): Actually, help says: CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM: > If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with > more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer "off" here It looks to me, that up to 1GB (including) the answer should be "off". But maybe boundary condition is not correctly defined, and for exactly 1GB it is necessary to select CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM = "4GB"... Jarry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list