Re: Bug#497230: [alpha] legacy and generic package descriptions
Legacy mode is necessary ONLY for MILO machines - all
machines running SRM will work fine without legacy mode.
And yes, there's more of a "gap" between low memory stuff and
the kernel when in non-legacy mode, but that doesn't mean it goes
unused - the kernel can use it for paging, or static space, etc,
just like any other part of its address space.
That's not to say it DOES use it; it's been long enough since
I looked at that area of the code for me to be unsure; anyone
else have any insight?
--Jay++
Matthew W. S. Bell wrote:
> 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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