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Re: Bug#497230: [alpha] legacy and generic package descriptions



On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 00:39 -0500, Brian Szymanski wrote:
> That's, what, 5MB of space? It seems to me we have it backwards --
> legacy should be the default, and folks on newer hardware can apt-get
> install the "non-legacy" kernel if they want to free up 5mb of
> physical memory. Or am I missing something?

I think it's more of an issue of address space collisions than memory
usage.

Matthew


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