Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:51:00 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: ioremap()/PCI sickness in 2.4.18-rc2 (FIXED ALMOST) |
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"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > regions of memory. I would propose that the maintainer of > vmalloc.c look at using 48 bit PTE entries or some other solution > as a way to alloc larger virtual address frames when the system has > a lot of physical memory. It's seems pretty lame to me for a machine > with 2 GB of physical memory not to have at lest 256 MB of address space > left over for address mapping.
Instead of constantly trying to map >32-bit addresses onto 32-bit processors, why not just get a 64-bit processor?
One constantly runs into limitations with highmem...
Jeff
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