Re: HIGHMEM64G Kernel (2.6.23.1) makes system crawl

[H. Peter Anvin]

Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> From looking in source code the CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is broken in many respects,
> in my opinion. It's really a 64-bit with 32-bit quirks enabled. Does it even
> run on None 64-bit machines? Not many! 

Total and utter bullsh*t.  It runs on virtually all modern x86's since 
the P6/K7 (certain Pentium M chips being an exception).

Also, it is required for NX protection and for several of the paravirt 
environments to work.

	-hpa
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