[Arm-netbook] brief update

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

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On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 3:38 PM, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
<pelzflorian at pelzflorian.de> wrote:
> On 09/15/2016 04:01 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>>> I stuck S5P6818 in the search at http://elinux.org/ (nope) and http://rhombus-tech.net/ (yep). Looks like a 64 bit chip with no 64 bit support.
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>>  correct.  given that it can only address 2GB of RAM that really doesn't matter.
>>
>> l.
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>
> What about virtual addressing / swap space? Then you may want more than
> 2GB address space.

 you do _not_ want to be using swap space on raw nand or even eMMC.
or USB-based external storage media.  in fact, you don't want to be
using swap space at all... with the exception possibly of compswap
(the much better version of zram, which linus torvalds refused to
allow the full set of patches for, into the linux kernel).

l.