On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 10:32:14AM +0200, Stef Bon wrote:
> 
> As I can see in the CBLFS book, there a lot of applications which do compile 
> and run on a 64-bits system. Are there applications/packages which don't??
> 
 Probably (old ones).  I can remember having to update config.guess
and config.sub on some packages.
[...]
> Futher you notice that on a 32 bits system (which I now have) you have to 
> enable
> himem support in the kernel to get beyond 900MB ram.. I have 1G ram, but it 
> only
> uses 884 MB ram. I'm wondering why. How does this work? Do I have to enable 
> the 
> himem support in the kernel? In the help of this option I read that I have to 
> enable it only
> when there is between 1G and 4G.
> 
 Yeah, 900 was an approximate figure.  I forget the details.  To get
more, you do have to enable himem in the kernel.  For exactly 1GB
it probably isn't a great benefit, but I haven't tried to benchmark
that.

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