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From: tomasz.figa@gmail.com (Tomasz Figa)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: some question about usermode:kernel mode is not 2:2 or 1:3
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:52:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5478233.oiXe2QDsbJ@flatron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANudz+snNE9shBTosbVK+xV9P0NPNPR3OH3z5ey=+u_FcFTrkQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Thursday 10 of January 2013 18:39:25 loody wrote:
> hi all:
> There are some hw limitations on my platform.
> 1. dram size is only 128MB.
> 2. cpu dram physical address range only from 0x0 ~ 0x8000000(128MB)
>     that means my PAGE_OFFSET cannot set as 2G or 3G
> 
> per above #1 and #2 limitation, I have to change  PAGE_OFFSET =
> 0x4000000(64MB) Kernel booting very well.
> but it will fail on running init, the first usermode program.
> 
> my question are:
> A. I use codesourcety toolchain, is it possible this failure due to
> toolchain not knowing the size limitation.
> B. if A is correct, should I cross-compile own toolchain to link my own
> kernel?

You seem to confuse physical memory with virtual memory. Here's a nice 
article about virtual memory on Linux:

http://linux-mm.org/VirtualMemory

Best regards,
Tomasz Figa

      reply	other threads:[~2013-01-10 10:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-10 10:39 some question about usermode:kernel mode is not 2:2 or 1:3 loody
2013-01-10 10:52 ` Tomasz Figa [this message]

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