HIGHMEM64G is not enabled in Ubuntu Desktop 32-bit
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Ubuntu |
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
As of this filing 2 GB of RAM costs 20 US Dollars retail. Consumer motherboards supporting > 4GB of RAM can be had for < 200 US dollars retail. All consumer CPUs support PAE or native 64 bit addressing. Within 6-12 months it is conceivable that consumer motherboards will support from 32 to 64 GB RAM configurations at a low cost and 64 bit OS software support will only have incrementally improved in that time.
Recompiling the linux kernel simply to enable HIGHMEM64G is unacceptable as it requires a recompile/
Given the availability of low cost computing environments which exceed the standard configuration of Ubuntu Desktop 32 bit, I am requesting that this bug be filed so that future versions of Ubuntu Desktop 32 bit are not crippled in this fashion.
+1 Amen!