From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266083AbUBLGsl (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2004 01:48:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266354AbUBLGsl (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2004 01:48:41 -0500 Received: from obsidian.spiritone.com ([216.99.193.137]:31405 "EHLO obsidian.spiritone.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266083AbUBLGsk (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2004 01:48:40 -0500 Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 22:48:36 -0800 From: "Martin J. Bligh" To: Mark de Vries , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: About highmem in 2.6 Message-ID: <41130000.1076568516@[10.10.2.4]> In-Reply-To: <402A7EC6.7010003@nl.tiscali.com> References: <1o6EZ-2zO-27@gated-at.bofh.it> <1o7AZ-3PD-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <402A7EC6.7010003@nl.tiscali.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.2.1 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I've been using this patch for a while now on my box (with 1GB): > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.23aa1/00_3.5G-address-space-5 > (kernel is 'vanilla' otherwise) > > This allows you to use your full 1GB w/out highmem support.... (2G/2G user/kernel addr space split, or something..) > > Anything (potentially) wrong/bad about this patch?? The only problem is that you lose some virtual address space for the user, which isn't a problem for most people. > Is there a simmilar patch for 2.6?? ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mbligh/patches/2.6.2/2.6.2-mjb1/212-config_page_offset You might have to tweak the config stuff a tiny bit to get the patch to apply if you don't have 4/4 split in. M.