From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Linux 2.6.0-test11 only lets me use 1GB out of 2GB ram.
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 21:50:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031211055039.GY8039@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52llpjykf8.fsf@topspin.com>
William> 2:2 splits are at least technically ABI violations, which
William> is probably why this isn't merged etc. Applications
William> sensitive to it are uncommon.
William> Yes, the SVR4 i386 ELF/ABI spec literally mandates
William> 0xC0000000 as the top of the process address space.
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 09:48:11PM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
> What about the 4G/4G split stuff for x86 (which is in 2.6 as well as
> the RH EL 3 kernel)? It seems that would be just as big a violation
> of the ABI...
I oversimplified it. It only requires it to be at or above 0xC0000000,
so the 4/4 patches are compliant.
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-11 5:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-11 5:06 PROBLEM: Linux 2.6.0-test11 only lets me use 1GB out of 2GB ram Donald Maner
2003-12-11 5:13 ` Nick Piggin
2003-12-11 5:33 ` Ed Sweetman
2003-12-11 5:41 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-11 5:48 ` Roland Dreier
2003-12-11 5:50 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2003-12-11 5:48 ` Nick Piggin
2003-12-11 6:30 ` David Lang
2003-12-11 7:08 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-12-11 7:19 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-11 7:22 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-12-11 13:24 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-11 14:41 ` Raul Miller
2003-12-11 14:53 ` Raul Miller
2003-12-11 15:00 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-11 16:17 ` moth
2003-12-11 16:35 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-11 19:26 ` Where did the ELF spec go? (SCO website?) Rob Landley
2003-12-11 19:44 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-11 20:25 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-12-12 11:11 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2003-12-11 6:01 ` PROBLEM: Linux 2.6.0-test11 only lets me use 1GB out of 2GB ram Raul Miller
2003-12-11 6:12 ` Nick Piggin
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2003-12-11 4:51 Raul Miller
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