Re: divorce CONFIG_X86_PAE from CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G

From: William Lee Irwin III
Date: Thu Jun 07 2007 - 23:41:19 EST


William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> !CONFIG_X86_PAE && CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G doesn't make sense and is not allowed
>> by this patch. CONFIG_X86_PAE && !CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G works here.


On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 08:38:22PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> But what's the point?
> If you're going to divorce these, at least do it in a way that makes
> sense, specifically the two independent variables are PAE and HIGHMEM.
> PAE and !HIGHMEM does make (some amount of) sense, due to no kmap overhead.

Beg your pardon? Are you reading the patch description correctly?


-- wli
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