[Gllug] HIGHMEM

Bryn Reeves hagbard at nildram.co.uk
Thu Sep 16 06:57:28 UTC 2004


On 16:41 Wed 15 Sep     , Andrew Halliwell wrote:
> And verily, didst Ian Norton announce to the hordes:
> > On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 13:17, Luke Hopkins wrote:
> > > Hi All, slight issue with Slackware 10.
> > > So, it looks as though recompiling the kernel with the support has made
> > > no difference. Any thoughts why this would be?
> > > I have no swap partition (wanted to do some benchmarking with physical
> > > memory only). Does HIGHMEM require swap space to use as addressing?
> > 
> > Have you made sure you had a clean build? (make clean)=20
> > you can get some wierd stuff when building with mixed configs.
> 
> Sometimes even make clean isn't enough and you have to copy your .config to
> a safe place, make mrproper, copy it back and make menuconfig/exit.
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Rather than make menuconfig, when you copy the .config back into place just
run make oldconfig - you can even use this across kernel versions/patchlevels
now, make will prompt for any new options since your .config was written.

Then just make dep && make bzImage && make modules and you're there :)

Regards,

Bryn.


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