Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965051AbWH2QQe (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:16:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965053AbWH2QQe (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:16:34 -0400 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.187]:20187 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965051AbWH2QQd (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:16:33 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=XY0Ak3MuuHS1M2KkFCaLVb+SjsvtXjxKuspqK13/XiaKt3n1XA2g0M3Xiq1riTU3unG47B7e55P36mAsHTCwJaQq/ys2U1ChKtU79pCoKRrQtHKUk7lRNdp+9OBpCm+TphnEq0dGhBVlEO1ciY3WiMZg/rBUiXD3Pj7mmt+2d5Q= Message-ID: Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 00:16:27 +0800 From: "Dong Feng" To: "Christoph Lameter" Subject: Re: The 3G (or nG) Kernel Memory Space Offset Cc: "Jan Engelhardt" , "Andi Kleen" , "Nick Piggin" , "Arjan van de Ven" , "Paul Mackerras" , "David Howells" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1042 Lines: 26 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 : > 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/