Citerar Eric Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Some people/troll on the Mandrakeclub forum claim the mandrake-secure 
> kernel does not support HIGHMEM like the kernel-enterprise. Is it 
> possible to enable it in the kernel-secure, or to create a 
> kernel-secure-enterprise for that purpose ?
> 

No it does not use highmem....
AFAIK highmem is not concidered a safe option when you try
to secure a kernel, but you could always recomile it yourself...


> Moreover, more and more desktop machines have more and more memory since
> 
> it has become very cheap. We could see it with a lot of people having 
> the frame buffer problem with 1GB RAM at install. Is there any reason to
> 

Actually the framebuffer problem was not because of highmem,
even if it triggered it...
The real problem was graphic cards with >64MB of RAM and
how they reports their memory banks back to the kernel...

I actually got a mail from one that had only 256MB system ram,
and a graphic card with 128MB, and he had this probleb too...

Anyway... The framebuffer problem is solved now ...

> not enable Highmem support for every kernel now or is it a problem for 
> people with less than 1GB ?
> 

There is a speed penalty when enabling highmem support,
so it should not be default...

And if you want highmem support, use the enterprise kernel...

 


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Thomas Backlund

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