On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 12:32:35PM +0300, Petko Manolov wrote:
> It is not so difficult as it looks.
I don't see it being difficult at all ...
> The master pgd looking as:
>
> .org 0x1000
> ENTRY(swapper_pg_dir)
> .long 0x00102007
> .long 0x00103007
> .fill BOOT_USER_PGD_PTRS-2,4,0
> /* default: 766 entries */
> .long 0x00102007
> .long 0x00103007
> /* default: 254 entries */
> .fill BOOT_KERNEL_PGD_PTRS-2,4,0
>
>
> should become:
>
>
> .org 0x1000
> ENTRY(swapper_pg_dir)
> .long 0x00102007
> .long 0x00103007
> .... # every entry addresses 4 MB exactly
> .... # so add as much as you want
> .long 0x0010X007
> .fill BOOT_USER_PGD_PTRS-X+2,4,0
I'm unconvinced we need to map more than 4 MB into low virtual addresses;
nothing seems to break with
ENTRY(swapper_pg_dir)
.long 0x00102007
.fill BOOT_USER_PGD_PTRS-1,4,0
here and I don't see anything that would break unless we moved head.S ...
> But i honestly don't see the point of all that.
Arbitrary kernel size limits are bad. Not complaining about a kernel
that definitely won't boot while building is even worse, and I think
the latter is actually pretty easy to fix ...
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