Re: The 3G (or nG) Kernel Memory Space Offset

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No, please do not get me wrong. Or perhaps please tolerate my poor English.

My intention is just trying to understand whether there is an absolute
rationality for a design choice or it just has to have a choice and
the choice can be made arbitrarily.

Sorry again if my English cause any misunderstanding.


2006/8/30, Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>:
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Dong Feng wrote:

> Or perhaps this offset is just some personal favor. Say if the first
> kernel designer decided to locate kernel at 2-3G linear address, then
> 2G offset would have appeared in code. Is this the case?

Well this is the second time that you suggest that the reason for
technical decisions have to do with personal favors. Are you trying to
provoke us into answering your question?


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