Re: [bigmem-patch] 4GB with Linux on IA32

Andrea Arcangeli
1999-08-17T12:38:20Z

On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, David S. Miller wrote:

> From: kanoj@google.engr.sgi.com (Kanoj Sarcar)
> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 16:28:58 -0700 (PDT)
>
> For example, on a 2.2.10 kernel:
> [kanoj@entity kern]$ gid __va | grep drivers
> drivers/char/mem.c:124: if (copy_to_user(buf, __va(p), count))
> drivers/char/mem.c:142: return do_write_mem(file, __va(p), p, buf, count, ppos);
>
>Ok, this one could be a problem.

It isn't. The bigmem is not readable from /dev/mem right now.

Andrea