Re: 2.4.8aa1

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Sun, 12 Aug 2001 22:44:39 -0700 (PDT)


On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> First, maybe I'm confused about intent. Are we trying to just hack
> together something quick for 2.4.x that allows PCI drivers on highmem
> machines to get at the complete low 4GB of physical memory, even the
> highmem parts?

No, it's more about cleaning up stuff for 2.4.x - the drivers affected
right now can't use more than 1GB of ram anyway, but as they were written
they would not compile in Andrea's tree due to having a bit too intimate a
knowledge of the VM system.

For 2.5.x, we'll see where we end up going in the long run.

Linus

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