Re: Patch for 3.5/0.5 address space split

Martin J. Bligh (mbligh@aracnet.com)
Sun, 06 Jul 2003 09:47:20 -0700


> Could anybody point out to patches available for 3.5/0.5 address
> space split for 2.4 and 2.5 kernels?

It's in 2.4-aa and 2.5-mjb trees. 2.5 has the added feature that it
can now do that for PAE (> 4GB) machines (from Dave Hansen).

> Any other working options? I managed to compile 2.4.21 kernel
> with 1/3 split, but not with 0.5/3.5. The last one simply doesn't
> boot. What could I be doing wrong?

You can chage PAGE_OFFSET yourself, but there's a few places to change
it ... do a grep -r for "C0000000", and hack all those - one of them
is in some .lds file or something, I forget.

M.

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