I don't think it does confuse or scare anybody, but rather tell the truth:
The way your kernel was compiled, it only supports 960MB of phys.
RAM. If you want more, you have to change it. But there's a drawback, if
you have processes needing very much virtual memory.
> I submitted a patch a while back that provided a set of options
> allowing this to be set from 0.75G to 3G in 0.25G steps (using a
> 'choice' statement with 1G as the default), and I still believe this
> to be the best method and granularity.
This is the better approach, I agree.
> The patch apparently missed changing arch/i386/vmlinux.lds and wasn't
> applied as a result, but as I stated in a post at the time, I don't
> know the language the said file is written in, so can hardly expect to
> patch it appropriately......
As said, you don't need full understanding. sed s/0x.0000000/NEWVAL/ will do
the job.
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