Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 12 Oct 2000 14:41:00 -0500 | From | Timur Tabi <> | Subject | Re: large memory support for x86 |
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** Reply to message from "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> on Thu, 12 Oct 2000 15:17:15 -0400 (EDT)
> With ix86 processors in the kernel, you can create multiple segments > and multiple page-tables.
Does the kernel provide services for this, or will I have to hack up the x86 page tables myself? If there are kernel services, what are they?
> If you have some 'hardware-specific' way > of mapping in real RAM that is not used by anybody else, you can have > your own private segment.
But is this part of the established Linux >4GB support? I don't think so.
> Page registers can map in multiple sticks > of RAM into a single window. The page-fault handler can manipulate > the page registers for user-mode code. It's being done in PAE.
But how does one go about doing all this?
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