Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Dec 2003 21:50:39 -0800 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: Linux 2.6.0-test11 only lets me use 1GB out of 2GB ram. |
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William> 2:2 splits are at least technically ABI violations, which William> is probably why this isn't merged etc. Applications William> sensitive to it are uncommon. William> Yes, the SVR4 i386 ELF/ABI spec literally mandates William> 0xC0000000 as the top of the process address space.
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 09:48:11PM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: > What about the 4G/4G split stuff for x86 (which is in 2.6 as well as > the RH EL 3 kernel)? It seems that would be just as big a violation > of the ABI...
I oversimplified it. It only requires it to be at or above 0xC0000000, so the 4/4 patches are compliant.
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