Legacy mode is necessary ONLY for MILO machines - all machines running SRM will work fine without legacy mode.
And yes, there's more of a "gap" between low memory stuff and the kernel when in non-legacy mode, but that doesn't mean it goes unused - the kernel can use it for paging, or static space, etc, just like any other part of its address space. That's not to say it DOES use it; it's been long enough since I looked at that area of the code for me to be unsure; anyone else have any insight? --Jay++ Matthew W. S. Bell wrote: > On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 00:39 -0500, Brian Szymanski wrote: >> That's, what, 5MB of space? It seems to me we have it backwards -- >> legacy should be the default, and folks on newer hardware can apt-get >> install the "non-legacy" kernel if they want to free up 5mb of >> physical memory. Or am I missing something? > > I think it's more of an issue of address space collisions than memory > usage. > > Matthew > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
