On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 11:36 +0200, Fabien Wernli wrote: > Hi, > > Does anybody know the reason for the inexistence of kernel-hugemen for > architecture athlon? > > In other words, why are these in the .spec of the kernel: > > <code> > %ifnarch i686 > %define buildhugemem 0 > %endif > </code> IIRC, "hugemem" uses the x86-specific PAE (3-level virtual->phys memory redirection) extension to address > 4GB of RAM and implement the 4GB/4GB user/kernel address space limits. Which other architecture would you think could benefit from this? Regards Jan