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From: mindentropy@gmail.com (mindentropy)
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 23:18:19 +0530
Subject: Regarding enable paging code and swapper_pg_dir.
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On Saturday 02 Apr 2011 9:55:35 pm James Light wrote:
> 
> To put the physical address into cr3 later.
> $swapper_pg_dir is not the PHYSICAL address of the PGD.

Correct me if I am wrong but a mov $foo,%eax would move the address of foo  
variable to eax right? Or is there a macro somewhere where they are adding 
PAGE_OFFSET to the address so that the $swapper_pg_dir - __PAGE_OFFSET 
justifies?