From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ankit Jain Subject: address limitation Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 13:28:09 +0100 (BST) Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20041008122809.99434.qmail@web52906.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: newbie hi well i am not able ot understand this... there are lot many more problems /proc/iomem 00000000-0009fbff : System RAM 0009fc00-0009ffff : reserved 000a0000-000bffff : Video RAM area 000c0000-000c7fff : Video ROM 000f0000-000fffff : System ROM 00100000-077effff : System RAM 00100000-00250d5b : Kernel code 00250d5c-0034ac43 : Kernel data this is just a brief..... System RAM what does that mean? the range can just point 65K of RAM? what about rest? so what that means? also, on a 32 bit proceesor we can at the most have a access to 4GB of area as we have that many address space. well some what it look stupid but then also asking some where this blunder i have to clear, that how it access the hard disks which is of much high capacity? thanks again ankit ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs