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I would second this motion. Can't imagine why you would have <I>less</I> than 4GB on a quad opteron <IMG SRC="cid:1093932654.3838.27.camel@dragon.valuecommerce.ne.jp" ALIGN="middle" ALT=":)" BORDER="0"><BR>
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How does HIGHMEM64G differ from HIGHMEM ?<BR>
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On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 23:31 -0400, Ed Hill wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Hi folks,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I've been using FC2 and devel kernels for one of our dual-Opteron</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">systems and am very happy with recent improvements. Everything works</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">well for us including:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> - AMD IDE interface</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> - tg3 driver (dual Broadcom BCM5704 GigE)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> - 3w_9xxx driver (8-port 3ware SATA card)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">The only request I have is that the following be added to the x86_64-SMP</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">kernel config:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I've been building custom kernels based on the testing SRPMs with just</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">this one small change and (for us at least) it works well on:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> kernel-2.6.7-1.494</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> kernel-2.6.8-1.524</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> kernel-2.6.8-1.533</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Would it be possible to make "CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y" the default for SMP</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">x86_64 kernels? I bow to the kernel experts, but it does appear to be a</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">reasonable default given the likelihood of SMP Opterons having more than</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">4Gig RAM.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">And I'll gladly add this to bugzilla if someone will recommend the best</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">topic for it.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Ed</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">-- </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Edward H. Hill III, PhD</FONT>
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