Bug 4232

Summary:	Using 1GB of system memory without enabling HIGHMEM
Product:	Memory Management	Reporter:	Pedro Castro (lucky13)
Component:	Page Allocator	Assignee:	Zwane Mwaikambo (zwane)
Status:	REJECTED WILL_NOT_FIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	ivan, raymond.lai
Priority:	P2
Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.10	Subsystem:
Regression:	---	Bisected commit-id:
Attachments:	Patch to use 1GB Low Memory

Description Pedro Castro 2005-02-20 15:20:17 UTC

Distribution: Gentoo Linux
Hardware Environment:
Problem Description:
Currently, the system can only use up to 896MB of RAM, but perhaps 1GB would
seem like a slightly more common limit nowadays.

Comment 1 Pedro Castro 2005-02-20 15:22:07 UTC

Created attachment 4577 [details]
Patch to use 1GB Low Memory

This patch is originaly from the ck-sources, and changed accordingly.

Comment 2 Zwane Mwaikambo 2005-08-07 14:46:44 UTC

It really should be 0x80000000 for alignment reasons, but i don't really see this
going in as it changes the user/kernel address space split.