Re: [Devil-linux-develop] kernel compile

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Diego Torres wrote:

>On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:25:37AM -0400, Heiko Zuerker wrote:
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>>Modifications have to be done to the following scripts:
>>prepare
>>linux
>>settings
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>about the config_linux settings for the kernel:
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>why is this configured:
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>CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y
>CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y
>CONFIG_HIGHIO=y
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>Support for highmem is only worth when the system has more than 4g, and then, there is a penalty for each page access. also, pages are bigger (so more memory can be dimensioned).
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>This should be a more practical configuration:
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>CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y
># CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G is not set
># CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set
># CONFIG_HIGHMEM is not set
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We need the highmem support for computers with >= 1 GB RAM, which is not 
so uncommon.

cya
  Heiko