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SubjectRe: 1GB/2GB/3GB User Space Splitting Patch 2.6.8.1 (PSEUDO SPAM)
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> You're years late to this game. It's been thought about and the
> consensus (which I disagreed with) was to reject virtualspace pressure
> related changes of this kind for 32-bit platforms in favor of refusing
> to support 32-bit platforms and/or workloads requiring them.
>

This has nothing to do with only having 1GB of kernel address
space and not enough virtual space to load a large swath of drivers
or support modules loading reentrantly. It's a little difficult to quantify
how much kernel address space will be needed when you don't
know if a full configuration will fit into it. The fact people use this
patch at all is **EVIDENCE THAT THERE ALREADY IS A PROBLEM**
with limiting kernel address space to 1GB. And who the hell cares about
a mouldy, antiquated ABI spec modeled after 1970 Unix technology anyway? It
should be another option for executable formats. All this ABI compatibility huey
is some Intel/SCO pipe dream for supporting applications across multiple Unix
platforms anyway. If it doesn't run on Linux, who the hell cares?

:-)

Jeff
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