[Gllug] HIGHMEM

Andrew Halliwell ah at gnd.com
Wed Sep 15 15:41:47 UTC 2004


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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