Re: can we move USB_DEVICEFS to non-embedded?

[Jeff Chua]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Randy Dunlap<randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> arch/x86/Kconfig says:
>
> choice
>        depends on EXPERIMENTAL
>        prompt "Memory split" if EMBEDDED
>        default VMSPLIT_3G
>        depends on X86_32
>        ---help---
>          Select the desired split between kernel and user memory.
>
>          If the address range available to the kernel is less than the
>          physical memory installed, the remaining memory will be available
>          as "high memory". Accessing high memory is a little more costly
>          than low memory, as it needs to be mapped into the kernel first.
>          Note that increasing the kernel address space limits the range
>          available to user programs, making the address space there
>          tighter.  Selecting anything other than the default 3G/1G split
>          will also likely make your kernel incompatible with binary-only
>          kernel modules.

Got it. Thanks for the pointer.

Jeff.
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