Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760784AbXFVXI4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:08:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756243AbXFVXIj (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:08:39 -0400 Received: from smtpq1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl ([213.51.146.200]:48770 "EHLO smtpq1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755770AbXFVXIj (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:08:39 -0400 Message-ID: <467C559B.6050208@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 01:04:59 +0200 From: Rene Herman User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070509) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 7eggert@gmx.de CC: "H. Peter Anvin" , Bart Trojanowski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: how to tell linux (on x86) to ignore 1M or memory References: <8bFEz-3B4-39@gated-at.bofh.it> <8c6EE-4Jj-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <8yGrK-4vX-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <8yRnb-4XE-23@gated-at.bofh.it> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 480 Lines: 13 On 06/23/2007 01:00 AM, Bodo Eggert wrote: > The real mode on i386+ can actually access the whole 4GB address range > due to a former-bug-now-feature in the i386+. Generally called "unreal mode". Yes, sure. Just a hack though. Rene. - 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/