Em Friday 04 July 2008 13:30:48 Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski escreveu:
> Hi,
>
> currently on kernel-desktop586 HIGHMEM is disabled, mainly because there is
> some slightly overhead with it enabled and this kernel was meant for old
> machines with low memory. But the desktop586 is used on Mandriva One (to
> work on most hardware as possible, even the older ones and not 686
> compatible arch cpus), and we get many reports of it not detecting all
> memory available, because systems with more than 896MB are very common
> today.
>
> I measured recently the boot time of a geode with 512MB with highmem4g
> enabled/nohighmem and didn't notice a significant difference at least on
> boot time (the difference was around 1s or less, still in some error
> margin). So what about we rediscuss this again and now enable
> CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G also on desktop586 kernel? I think that there are more
> benefits in enabling it.

Given all feedback and this, I enabled now CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G for desktop586
kernel, this modification will be available in next cooker kernels (post
2.6.26-0.rc8.1mnb-1-1mnb1).

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Herton