Public bug reported:
As of this filing 2 GB of RAM costs 20 US Dollars retail. Consumer
motherboards supporting > 4GB of RAM can be had for < 200 US dollars
retail. All consumer CPUs support PAE or native 64 bit addressing.
Within 6-12 months it is conceivable that consumer motherboards will
support from 32 to 64 GB RAM configurations at a low cost and 64 bit OS
software support will only have incrementally improved in that time.
Recompiling the linux kernel simply to enable HIGHMEM64G is unacceptable
as it requires a recompile/reinstall/reconfigure of all non-kernel
drivers and reconfiguration of said, basically a manual reinstall of
non-kernel functionality after kernel compile. The methods for doing so
are poorly documented, error prone and do not meet a satisfactory
usability criterion for the ubuntu user community.
Given the availability of low cost computing environments which exceed
the standard configuration of Ubuntu Desktop 32 bit, I am requesting
that this bug be filed so that future versions of Ubuntu Desktop 32 bit
are not crippled in this fashion.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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HIGHMEM64G is not enabled in Ubuntu Desktop 32-bit
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/179025
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