Re: PROBLEM: Linux 2.6.0-test11 only lets me use 1GB out of 2GB ram.

From: Roland Dreier
Date: Thu Dec 11 2003 - 00:49:07 EST


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.

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...

- Roland
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