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On Wednesday 25 August 2004 21:49, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> At some point in the past, I wrote:
> William> ELF ABI violation. "...the reserved area shall not
> William> consume more than 1GB of the address space."
>
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 09:46:43PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> > Agreed, but I do like running with PAGE_OFFSET =3D=3D 0xB0000000 on my
> > main box, which has 1 GB of RAM.  I can avoid highmem and still use
> > the last 128 MB of RAM.  It takes me about 3 seconds to edit
> > <asm/page.h> when I build a new kernel so I'm not arguing for merging
> > this, though.
>
> Though asinine, the ABI spec is set in stone.

And at least one app (valgrind) chokes with as little as 1.25G of reserved=
=20
space.

=2DRyan

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