[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

RAM usage



On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 03:32:12PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> Ben Armstrong wrote:
> > Aha!  Yet another reason etch is a bad default
> 
> that has nothing to do with etch, but with the fact, that the 486 kernel
> flavour doesn't support highmen. this is also the case in lenny.
> 
> and yes, the 486 kernel should be the default flavour; not just because
> its the default d-i flavour, but because it runs on hardware that the
> 686 doesn't support; otoh, the 486 supports all hardware that the 686
> does, but only some of them not optimally (such as machines with more
> than 1gb ram).

It also has SMP disabled. So you support up to oine CPU and 1GB of
memory. But you do support a bunch of extra CPUs. Yay!
The 686 works on Intel ppro Pentuim II and better, AMD K7 and better,
some of the Vias (not sure exactly which).

On my CD I have:

$ cat config/chroot
LH_LINUX_FLAVOURS="686"

-- 
               Tzafrir Cohen       
icq#16849755                    jabber:tzafrir at jabber.org
+972-50-7952406           mailto:tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com       
http://www.xorcom.com  iax:guest at local.xorcom.com/tzafrir



Reply to: