On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 00:36 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On 03/24/2012 12:25 AM, Will Set wrote: [...] > >> This is the first i'm hearing that the -486 flavor would cause > >> instability on highmem machines. > >> > >> Can you point me to some documentation so i could understand why that > >> might be the case? > > > > Here is a link to linux-image-2.6.32-5-686-bigmem > > http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/linux-image-2.6-686-bigmem. > > This doesn't provide me with any information that suggests that -486 > flavors would cause instability on machines with 4GiB; it only suggests > that i want those kernels if i want to make full use of all 4GiB, > AFAICT. Did you mean to point me to some other documentation? Am i > reading it wrong? If the 486 flavour didn't work properly on machines with lots of memory then we would be big trouble since the installer uses it. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I'm always amazed by the number of people who take up solipsism because they heard someone else explain it. - E*Borg on alt.fan.pratchett
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