Re: 6G memory

From: John Summerfield (debian_at_ComputerDatasafe.com.au)
Date: 07/29/04

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    Monique Y. Mudama wrote:

    >On 2004-07-28, Jonathan Melhuish penned:
    >
    >
    >>On Sunday 25 July 2004 17:57, John Summerfield wrote:
    >>
    >>
    >>>Check out Red Hat's download areas for its latest 2.4 kernel. I'm
    >>>pretty sure the Red Hat Enterprise kernels (those with enterprise
    >>> in their names as some have smp) support more than 4 Gbytes.
    >>>
    >>>
    >>Huh, I thought I was on the debian-user list? Now you're confusing
    >>me... ;-)
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >
    >I don't see why you couldn't run a redhat-provided kernel on a debian
    >system. When I use to d/l from kernel.org, did that mean I wasn't
    >running debian? The horror!
    >
    >
    >

    Thanks M.

    I suspect there are patches required. Red Hat kernels have the support,
    it seems from your experience that Debian doesn't. There _may_ be a
    Debian patch, but I think that requires a certain amount of stuffing round.

    There's no FS issue with RH kernels. If the RH kernel does what you
    want, go for it. If you want the source, get the src.rpm. If you want to
    build a proper Debian kernel from the RH source, that's possible too.

    Something like a third of the RH kernel source is patches: it might be
    more. For things like PAE.

    Off hand, I can't think of any impediment to running a RH kernel on
    Debian, unless the NPTL causes problems, and the quickest way to find
    that out is to try it. 

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