Subject: Re: Any resolution for LKM issues?
To: gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/17/2001 22:50:09
On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 03:29:17PM -0500, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 03:50:32PM +0100, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> > They're at a potentially long distance from each other.
>
> How so? A potentially >32MB distance?
>
> I mean, if we had an architecture which was similarly crippled for
> far calls whose short calls were *really* short (say a few K), then
> it'd be a problem, but as I understood it, ALL LKMs are loaded
> somewhere around E00000, meaning they can (probably) all reach each
> other.
>
> Is that not true?
0xE0000000 ... 0xEfffffff. Thats a 256 MB-4 distance, worst case.
Regards,
Ignatios