No bigmem kernels anymore?

Axel Thimm Axel.Thimm at physik.fu-berlin.de
Wed Jan 7 19:07:55 UTC 2004


On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 04:56:57PM +0000, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 15:51, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > FC1 did not ship bigmem kernels anymore. What is the reason? Too few
> > users, too much support? Functionality swallowed by smp kernel?
> 
> plan is to use i686-smp kernel for this functionality.

Thanks for clarifying. It's good to see less kernel flavours covering
more setups.

> > Note that the config files for bigmem kernels are still shipped.
> 
> Are you sure? I've nuked them from the copy I have here..
> Anything after 1.27 should no longer have anything bigmem related in it.

I was looking at the 2.4.x kernel, but rawhide's 2.6 (1.24) is also
still carrying it. Not a true issue, IMHO.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at physik.fu-berlin.de
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