Re: Linux and lots of memory: documentation?

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl)
Fri, 18 Dec 1998 00:07:09 +0100 (CET)


On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Riley Williams wrote:

> Perhaps the enclosed patch (against 2.1.131ac13) would come in useful
> here. It basically adds a configuration option in "Processor type and
> features" to select the breakpoint between physical RAM and virtual
> memory, and the method used allows quarter-gigabyte steps to be

--- linux/include/asm-i386/page.h.orig Thu Apr 9 02:05:18 1998
+++ linux/include/asm-i386/page.h Thu Dec 17 20:58:28 1998
@@ -80,7 +80,11 @@
[SNIP]

...and quoting from the complete page.h:

* IF YOU CHANGE THIS, PLEASE ALSO CHANGE
*
* arch/i386/vmlinux.lds
*
* which has the same constant encoded..
*/
#define __PAGE_OFFSET (0xC0000000)

Well, I guess you get the idea :) Your patch seems to
need a bit of 'polishing'... Once you get things working
with more than 1 GB I will publish this story-of-a-hero
on the Linux-MM web site :)

cheers,

Rik -- the flu hits, the flu hits, the flu hits -- MORE
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