Re: [PATCH 0/2] FLATMEM: allow memory to start at pfn != 0 [take #2]

[tsbogend@alpha.franken.de (Thomas Bogendoerfer)]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:39:59PM +0100, Franck Bui-Huu wrote:
> I think you missed PAGE_OFFSET meaning...
> 
> PAGE_OFFSET is the start of the kernel virtual address space and
> before this patchset pa(PAGE_OFFSET) was always 0.
> 
> In your case, you said:
> 
>        PAGE_OFFSET = 0x80000000
>        PHYS_OFFSET = 0x10000000
> 
> this means that the first kernel virtual address is 0x80000000 and the
> corresponding physical address is 0x10000000. If you load your kernel
> at 0x9000xxxx, it will be loaded in physical memory located at
> 0x2000xxxx which is obviously not what you want.

which sound like a very bogus setup for at leat 32bit MIPS. The mapping
virtual 0x80000000 to physical 0x00000000 is a CPU thing and can't
be changed.

Thomas.

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