Andrea,

We will give it a try.

How difficult would it be to move that patch to 2.4?

It would be great if it could be a kernel configuration time option.

Regards,

Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 09:27:07PM +0100, Kai Harrekilde-Petersen wrote:
> > Is this available as a patch, or preferably as a compilation option to
>
> They're available here:
>
>         ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patches/v2.2/2.2.14/bigmem-large-mapping-1.bz2
>         ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patches/v2.2/2.2.14/bigmem-large-task-1.bz2
>
> But they're against 2.2.x + bigmem. The first one is still valid (and it's
> similar to the one discussed here). The second one doesn't apply to 2.4.x
> and both vmlinux.lds and PAGE_OFFSET should be changed that way to
> make it to work there.
>
> Andrea
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