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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: babydr@baby-dragons.com
Cc: sten@blinkenlights.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: INIT_MMAP on sparc64
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 16:24:53 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011022.162453.21928469.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110221917150.1522-100000@filesrv1.baby-dragons.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011021.181523.112610375.davem@redhat.com> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110221917150.1522-100000@filesrv1.baby-dragons.com>

   From: "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <babydr@baby-dragons.com>
   Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 19:18:38 -0400 (EDT)

   	Why man ! ,  Alpha does not have this limit ?  Why Sparc ?

It has to do with a combination of what OBP guarentees the boot
loader and limitations within the boot signature.

It would require a lot of SILO and kernel work to eliminate.

Franks a lot,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com

      reply	other threads:[~2001-10-22 23:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-21 15:10 INIT_MMAP on sparc64 Sten
2001-10-21 15:04 ` David S. Miller
2001-10-21 15:52   ` Sten
2001-10-22  1:15     ` David S. Miller
2001-10-22 15:14       ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-10-22 22:39       ` Sten
2001-10-22 22:28         ` David S. Miller
2001-10-22 22:50           ` Sten
2001-10-22 22:39             ` David S. Miller
2001-10-22 23:00               ` Sten
2001-10-22 23:23               ` Jeff Garzik
2001-10-22 23:18       ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2001-10-22 23:24         ` David S. Miller [this message]

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