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amelius ◴[30 Jun 25 09:25 UTC] No.44421186[source]▶

> And the latest one, an Apple MacBook Pro, is nice and fast but has some limits — does not support 64k page size. Which I need for my work.

I wonder where this requirement comes from ...

dist1ll ◴[30 Jun 25 10:36 UTC] No.44421603[source]▶

OP works for Red Hat, and some of the tests require booting systems with 64k pages.

What surprises me more is why Red Hat doesn't provide them with the proper hardware..

1. gbraad ◴[30 Jun 25 14:06 UTC] No.44423469[source]▶

We have access to many, such as the TestFarm, or machines you can reserve on what is called Beaker.

Note: Recently also purchased an Ampere machine with some other people. Just to play around and host stuff.

Bought myself an Ampere Altra system