Re: [PATCH] Clarify i386/Kconfig explanation of the HIGHMEM configoptions

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Thu Dec 14 2006 - 11:06:48 EST


On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 10:37 -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
> > + 1 Gigabyte or more total physical RAM, answer "off" here.
> >
>
> I don't think your proposed wording (1 gigabyte or more) versus (more
> than 1 gigabyte) doesn't really change the sense of this.
>
> If we want to be even more explicit about this, then if the CPU level
> selected by the user is greater than Pentium-M (or whatever is was the
> oldest CPU that didn't have NX support --- Arjan?)

later pentium M's do support PAE (for NX). Only the very first ones did
not. Celerons might not either.. but PPro and later generally have
pae...


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