[CentOS] Re: 4g/4g

Wed Jul 20 13:46:07 UTC 2005
Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>

On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 08:24:51AM -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> All distros I know of have their own standards.
> > 4g/4g was a redhat feature I think..
> No, the stock kernel has the 4Gi/4Gi model.  But yes, Red Hat installs
> it by default.  I'm sure the number of people who upgraded memory and
> saw no increase only to call Red Hat tech support were the reason why
> this is done.

You sure about that? It's my understanding that the 4g/4g patch was
something that RH wanted to get into the mainline kernel but which was never
accepted, so they dropped it.

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