Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 19:36:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 19:35:37 -0500 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:1549 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 19:34:49 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] 1-2-3 GB To: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 00:46:21 +0000 (GMT) Cc: mjustice@austin.rr.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <3C422066.6040000@zytor.com> from "H. Peter Anvin" at Jan 13, 2002 04:03:50 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > As I said: At 1 GB of userspace there is *no* address space which is > compatible with the normal address space map available to the user process. > > There is mmap() space, available, sure, but you can't get the same > address, even by request. Applications that care about the layout of > the address space will fail. That sounds a good reason to run this mode a bit for debugging (be sure to use Hugh's gcc 2.95/egcs-1.1.2 bug fix when trying this though!) - 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/