From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267563AbUHZEuK (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:50:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267542AbUHZEuJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:50:09 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:42642 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267563AbUHZEt7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:49:59 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 21:49:54 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Roland Dreier Cc: jmerkey@comcast.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jmerkey@drdos.com Subject: Re: 1GB/2GB/3GB User Space Splitting Patch 2.6.8.1 (PSEUDO SPAM) Message-ID: <20040826044954.GP2793@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Roland Dreier , jmerkey@comcast.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jmerkey@drdos.com References: <082620040421.9849.412D655C000690BA000026792200735446970A059D0A0306@comcast.net> <20040826043318.GO2793@holomorphy.com> <52isb6bj64.fsf@topspin.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <52isb6bj64.fsf@topspin.com> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 == 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 > when I build a new kernel so I'm not arguing for merging > this, though. Though asinine, the ABI spec is set in stone. -- wli