Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

From: saravanan ganapathy (sarav_gsa_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/29/04

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To: Alexei Chetroi <debian@lexa.uniflux-line.net>

    --- Alexei Chetroi <debian@lexa.uniflux-line.net>
    wrote:

    > On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 09:10:52PM -0800, saravanan
    > ganapathy wrote:
    > > Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 21:10:52 -0800 (PST)
    > > From: saravanan ganapathy <sarav_gsa@yahoo.com>
    > > To: Adam Aube <aaube01@baker.edu>,
    > debian-user@lists.debian.org
    > > Subject: Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody
    > >
    > > My arch is 686 only. 686-smp testing version only
    > > supports highmem support. I 've installed
    > > kernel-image-2.4.18-smp (stable) which doesn't
    > support
    > > highmem support
    > >
    > 1st of all, pls don't top post.
    >
    > 2nd, if you want to use kernel that comes with
    > stable, install package
    > kernel-source-2.4.18 and recompile it with highmem
    > enabled. I wouln't
    > recommend package from kernel.org as Debian kernel
    > include some patches
    > and security back-ports. Otherwise you have to stay
    > on latest kernel (if
    > you don't want local kernel exploits) and recompile
    > everytime new kernel
    > gets out.

    The latest kernel version in kernel.org for 2.4.x
    series is 2.4.28. But the debian stable kernel version
    is 2.4.18.

    Is there any lack in this?

    Sarav

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