RFC: Page size on PPC/PPC64 builders

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> David Woodhouse (dwmw2 at infradead.org) said:
>  > For 4KiB pages:
>  >  - Makes life 'easier' for PPC builds, to stop people whining about it
>  >    finding their bugs for them.
>  >  - Consistent with what we actually ship in Fedora.
>
>  - wastes less memory on lower-mem ppc machines. Not that this should be a
>  dealbreaker, but it's something to think about.
>

Technical question voiced from stupidity... can a lowmem system run in
32 bit mode? If they can, what do they gain in 64 bit mode?

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