Support 256MB machines in Ubiquity.
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casper (Baltix) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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casper (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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partman-base (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: ubiquity
Ubuntu supports 256MB machines, but Ubiquity only supports machines with 384MB of ram or more. Fixing this is as simple as adding
modprobe lzo_compress
modprobe lzo_decompress
insmod tlsf.ko
insmod ccache.ko ccache_
swapon /dev/ccache
to the LiveCD init scripts. (assuming tlsf.ko and ccache.ko are in the current directory)
The source can be downloaded from
http://
This is a form of feature freeze exception request.
0 lines of code are added.
ccache.ko and tlsf.ko require 902 lines of new C code. See:
http://
I have tested the LiveCD and Ubiquity on a VM with 192MB of ram. Without ccache.ko it is unusable, with ccache.ko it gives good performance even in resource hungry applications like Firefox. For more information on my testing, and discussion of this module, see:
https:/
See also
bug 114599
bug 193267
http://
http://
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Feb 20 01:58:39 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: ubiquity 1.7.6
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Uname: Linux ubuntu 2.6.24-5-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 24 19:45:21 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
Unfortunately, we're past Feature Freeze, so there's just no way that this can go in Hardy. Marking as "later" to be evaluated for Intrepid.