Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965046AbWH2QNd (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:13:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965050AbWH2QNd (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:13:33 -0400 Received: from omx1-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.179.11]:12174 "EHLO omx1.americas.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965046AbWH2QNc (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:13:32 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 09:12:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter To: Dong Feng cc: Jan Engelhardt , Andi Kleen , Nick Piggin , Arjan van de Ven , Paul Mackerras , David Howells , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: The 3G (or nG) Kernel Memory Space Offset In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 667 Lines: 15 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? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/