From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1DuRpU-0007Ny-76 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 05:22:30 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DuRpP-0007MP-GB for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 05:22:23 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DuRpI-0007IR-ML for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 05:22:18 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DuRpI-0007Gp-8n for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 05:22:16 -0400 Received: from [212.43.237.68] (helo=kotoba.storever.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DuRwG-00015q-FR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 05:29:28 -0400 Received: from ASSP-nospam (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FD5511F754A2 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 11:20:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1] helo=ip6-localhost) by ASSP-nospam ; 18 Jul 05 09:20:14 -0000 From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Organization: enbug.org To: The development of GRUB 2 Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 11:19:47 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <20050717223204.2E7834BEAD@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> <42DB2333.7050708@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <42DB2333.7050708@comcast.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-5" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507181119.47236.okuji@enbug.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] new ELF64 patch X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 09:22:24 -0000 On Monday 18 July 2005 05:34, Joel Buckley wrote: > I can see this would be a problem for the final running kernel. > However, is 4GB sufficient for kernel loading & kernel memory discovery? You are absolutely right. The idea behind is that GRUB itself does not require much memory, while passing correct information to an OS image. Since using 64 GB on i386 needs utilization of segment registers, it's overkill for GRUB. Okuji