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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