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    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.