Bug#295678: kernel-image packages with CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y enabled

2006-02-16 Thread dann frazier
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 18:12 +0100, Yann Rouillard wrote: > > I can't say I'm a fan of adding another flavour. How many people are > > actually using >4GB of memory on x86? I suspect (or hope) that people > > who are going to be doing those sorts of things will be using x86_64 > > and ia64 hardwar

Bug#295678: kernel-image packages with CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y enabled

2006-02-16 Thread Yann Rouillard
> I can't say I'm a fan of adding another flavour. How many people are > actually using >4GB of memory on x86? I suspect (or hope) that people > who are going to be doing those sorts of things will be using x86_64 > and ia64 hardware. Christian's problem, aiui, is simply that the kernel > sees 3

Bug#295678: kernel-image packages with CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y enabled

2005-08-10 Thread Horms
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 10:03:31AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 11:57:35AM +0900, Horms wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 05:34:33PM -0600, dann frazier wrote: > > > On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 11:29 +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: > > > > Hello > > > > > > > > The problems is

Bug#295678: kernel-image packages with CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y enabled

2005-08-10 Thread Andres Salomon
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 11:57:35AM +0900, Horms wrote: > On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 05:34:33PM -0600, dann frazier wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 11:29 +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: > > > Hello > > > > > > The problems is not Dell PowerEdge specific. My TYAN Tiger-i7320-S5350 > > > (standard dual

Bug#295678: kernel-image packages with CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y enabled

2005-08-10 Thread Frederik Schueler
Hello, On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 11:57:35AM +0900, Horms wrote: > > I think supporting these machines would mean adding an additional x86 > > kernel-image flavor. > > I think if it is a performance hit (on a sufficiently prevalent > set of hardware) then a new flavour would be in order. We should

Bug#295678: kernel-image packages with CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y enabled

2005-08-10 Thread Christian Hammers
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 05:34:33PM -0600, dann frazier wrote: > > The problems is not Dell PowerEdge specific. My TYAN Tiger-i7320-S5350 > > (standard dual xeon server from www.ipc2u.com) also reports only 3.5GB > > after booting the Sarge 2.6 kernel :-( The BIOS reports full 4GB. > > So if it doe

Bug#295678: kernel-image packages with CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y enabled

2005-08-09 Thread Horms
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 05:34:33PM -0600, dann frazier wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 11:29 +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: > > Hello > > > > The problems is not Dell PowerEdge specific. My TYAN Tiger-i7320-S5350 > > (standard dual xeon server from www.ipc2u.com) also reports only 3.5GB > > after

Bug#295678: kernel-image packages with CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y enabled

2005-08-09 Thread dann frazier
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 11:29 +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: > Hello > > The problems is not Dell PowerEdge specific. My TYAN Tiger-i7320-S5350 > (standard dual xeon server from www.ipc2u.com) also reports only 3.5GB > after booting the Sarge 2.6 kernel :-( The BIOS reports full 4GB. > So if it do

Bug#295678: kernel-image packages with CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y enabled

2005-08-09 Thread Horms
reassign 295678 linux-2.6 thanks On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 11:29:56AM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: > Hello > > The problems is not Dell PowerEdge specific. My TYAN Tiger-i7320-S5350 > (standard dual xeon server from www.ipc2u.com) also reports only 3.5GB > after booting the Sarge 2.6 kernel :-(

Bug#295678: kernel-image packages with CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y enabled

2005-08-09 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello The problems is not Dell PowerEdge specific. My TYAN Tiger-i7320-S5350 (standard dual xeon server from www.ipc2u.com) also reports only 3.5GB after booting the Sarge 2.6 kernel :-( The BIOS reports full 4GB. So if it does not hurt anybody I suggest turning on 64GB support. bye, -christian

Bug#295678: kernel-image packages with CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y enabled

2005-02-17 Thread Philipp Esselbach
Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp Version: 2.6.8-2 Severity: wishlist Please consider to release additional kernel-image packages with CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y and PAE enabled by default. The current default kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp will only recognise 3GB out of 4GB memory on a Dell PowerEdg