I looked in the release notes, but maybe I missed it. Is it not possible to build a kernel from CentOS 4.3 (using 2.6.9-34.0.1) with HIGHMEM support turned off? This is for a machine with 512mb. When I try to build the kernel, I get _etext undefined symbol on line 100 of pageattr.c in arch/i386/mm. Linus
On 6/28/06, Linus Hicks <lihicks at gpi.com> wrote:> I looked in the release notes, but maybe I missed it. Is it not possible to > build a kernel from CentOS 4.3 (using 2.6.9-34.0.1) with HIGHMEM support turned > off? This is for a machine with 512mb. > > When I try to build the kernel, I get _etext undefined symbol on line 100 of > pageattr.c in arch/i386/mm.What kernel are you trying to build, and how are you trying to build it? I should probably also throw in a 'why are you building your own kernel?' too, but we'll save that for a little later. -- This message has been double ROT13 encoded for security. Anyone other than the intended recipient attempting to decode this message will be in violation of the DMCA
On Jun 28, 2006, at 9:29 AM, Linus Hicks wrote:> I looked in the release notes, but maybe I missed it. Is it not > possible to build a kernel from CentOS 4.3 (using 2.6.9-34.0.1) > with HIGHMEM support turned off? This is for a machine with 512mb. > > When I try to build the kernel, I get _etext undefined symbol on > line 100 of pageattr.c in arch/i386/mm. > > Linus > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centosI've seen this myself with RHEL 4. My speculation is that they are selling an Enterprise level OS, and they don't test builds for too small of computers. In my case, I was trying to build a SMALL OS for boot floppies, and I noticed it was broken. Took awhile to track it down to the right option. But when some of the computers you have to support with it can have as little as 32MB, and the best computer has 1GB, it doesn't seem like you need HIGHMEM :)
On Wednesday 28 June 2006 10:29 am, Linus Hicks wrote:> I looked in the release notes, but maybe I missed it. Is it not > possible to build a kernel from CentOS 4.3 (using 2.6.9-34.0.1) with > HIGHMEM support turned off? This is for a machine with 512mb.http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=185202