Conway S. Smith wrote: > Marcel Treis wrote: > > >Gavin Seddon wrote: > > > >>Hi, > >>I have decided to put 2 * 1Gig cards in my box. Will Gentoo accept this > >>immediately? > >>Gavin > >> > >> > >You probably need to recompile your Kernel with support for more than 1 > >Gig Ram: > > >"Processor type and features" > "High Memory Support (4GB)" > > > That's only necessary for 32-bit kernels. If your Processor family is > set to AMD-Opteron/Athlon64 (CONFIG_MK8), which I think is a fairly safe > assumption on this list, then you automatically get support for well > over 4GiB of memory (I can't remember exactly how much is supported, but > it's much, much more than 4GiB), and without the performance tradeoff of > the 32-bit HIGHMEM support. > > I've got 2 * 1GiB sticks in my box right now. Works wonderfully. > > Good luck, > Conway S. Smith
That's the drawback on being amd64-fan, but still i386-user. *g*
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