Re: 1GB/2GB/3GB User Space Splitting Patch 2.6.8.1 (PSEUDO SPAM)

[Alan Cox]

On Iau, 2004-08-26 at 05:49, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 09:46:43PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> > Agreed, but I do like running with PAGE_OFFSET == 0xB0000000 on my
> > main box, which has 1 GB of RAM.  I can avoid highmem and still use
> > the last 128 MB of RAM.  It takes me about 3 seconds to edit
> > <asm/page.h> when I build a new kernel so I'm not arguing for merging
> > this, though.
> 
> Though asinine, the ABI spec is set in stone.

Lots of Linux configuration options build you systems that don't meet
some specifications. "Intentionally violate a stupid spec to get work
done" is a good option 8)

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