From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Rick Brown" Subject: need for 3G/1G split Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:45:27 +0530 Message-ID: <7783925d0703202115j11dbf254nc916252e4cd98e8a@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=K7J85NMn8/aBSScdIz+WApSzern3loShdJWixZEGtuVInOnph5ICBH7w87RB2hPn9iaGZwd2HScz/XRkwSNtfXZtsMtYf4Cq9b5X8mY8dOJpqQQuTfwPop2GtcE5H+mm26cfqovl1Q7z7RyfzYY8+2YDkfYXPpEelEyZh9ziof4= Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: kernelnewbies , linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Hi, Why is kernel restricted to use virtual addresses of only 1 GB? Or what is the need to split up the virtual address space into user addresses and kernel addresses? TIA, Rick - 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