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From: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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)
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 21:46:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52isb6bj64.fsf@topspin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040826043318.GO2793@holomorphy.com> (William Lee Irwin, III's message of "Wed, 25 Aug 2004 21:33:18 -0700")

    William> ELF ABI violation. "...the reserved area shall not
    William> consume more than 1GB of the address space."

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
<asm/page.h> when I build a new kernel so I'm not arguing for merging
this, though.

 - R.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-26  4:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-26  4:21 1GB/2GB/3GB User Space Splitting Patch 2.6.8.1 (PSEUDO SPAM) jmerkey
2004-08-26  4:33 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-26  4:46   ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2004-08-26  4:49     ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-26  8:40       ` Ryan Cumming
2004-08-29 12:48       ` Alan Cox
2004-08-29 16:42         ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-29 15:45           ` Alan Cox
2004-08-29 17:00             ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-26  4:38 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-26  4:42 ` Roland Dreier
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-26 20:24 jmerkey
2004-08-26 20:38 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-26 21:41 ` Dave Jones
2004-08-26 21:08 jmerkey
2004-08-26 21:43 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-26 23:47 linux
2004-08-30  4:01 jmerkey
2004-08-30  4:35 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-08-30  5:56 jmerkey
2004-08-30 18:10 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-08-30 18:28   ` Roland Dreier
2004-09-22 18:52   ` Timothy Miller
2004-09-22 18:51     ` Roland Dreier
2004-09-22 20:22       ` Timothy Miller
2004-09-27 14:55         ` Roland Dreier
2004-08-31 22:50 jmerkey

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