Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Aug 2006 00:16:27 +0800 | From | "Dong Feng" <> | Subject | Re: The 3G (or nG) Kernel Memory Space Offset |
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No, please do not get me wrong. Or perhaps please tolerate my poor English.
My intention is just trying to understand whether there is an absolute rationality for a design choice or it just has to have a choice and the choice can be made arbitrarily.
Sorry again if my English cause any misunderstanding.
2006/8/30, Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>: > On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Dong Feng wrote: > > > Or perhaps this offset is just some personal favor. Say if the first > > kernel designer decided to locate kernel at 2-3G linear address, then > > 2G offset would have appeared in code. Is this the case? > > Well this is the second time that you suggest that the reason for > technical decisions have to do with personal favors. Are you trying to > provoke us into answering your question? > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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