New testing kernel.
Marc Schwartz
MSchwartz at MedAnalytics.com
Sat Dec 4 05:17:36 UTC 2004
On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 00:06 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 10:51:29PM -0600, Marc Schwartz wrote:
>
> > > The biggest change in this kernel over the older ones
> > > that affects all x86 users, is that the 4g/4g
> > > memory split is no longer the default. If you
> > > have a lot of memory (16GB or more), or have a workload
> > > that benefits from being able to have more address
> > > space, you can use the -hugemem kernel to run with
> > > 4g/4g again. The regular non-hugemem kernels have
> > > the traditional 3:1 split.
> >
> > Is the fix for the b44 issue
> > (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=118165)
> > incorporated into the kernels yet?
>
> yes. I actually trimmed too much of the changelog.
> There's another few days of changes that went in.
>
> > Also, does the change in the 4g/4g status influence the b44 fix?
>
> In that the bug only affects -hugemem. So it's doubly fixed 8)
>
> Dave
snip
> - Fix problem with b44 driver and 4g/4g patch. (#118165)
Great! :-)
As soon as the new kernel hits my mirror I will install it.
Thanks!
Marc
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