Re: 2GB RAM

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl)
Wed, 3 Jun 1998 22:03:41 +0200 (MET DST)


On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Chris Wedgwood wrote:

> This reminds me... I have an application that wants to use more than 2GB of
> VM space is a fairly sparse manner, such that perhaps only 10MB of the
> address space is really mapped in...
>
> Specifically I want to be able to run code in the first few hundred MB of VM
> space but will also need to store data at and above 0x80000000.
>
> Now... is there any reason why this shouldn't work? (Test code so far seems
> to....)

It works when the virtual/physical split is set to 3/1.
Try addresses above 0xc0000000 to see it fail...

Rik.
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