Re: initialize page tables -- Re: paging question

From: Brian Gerst (bgerst@didntduck.org)
Date: Wed Feb 20 2002 - 16:49:43 EST


Jason Yan wrote:
>
> Thank you all.
>
> OK. I got it. and,
>
> Is the linker who set the beginning virtual address as 0xc0100000 ? Is it a must? When and where? at the time "make bzImage" ? If it's not a BIG kernel, is the magic number still 0xc0100000 ?

It's set in vmlinux.lds, and is the same for all kernels unless patched
to change the user:kernel vm split.

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