I can happily remove the comment if that is your problem.
That comment was written in the 2.1.x series, _long_ before anybody
worried about stability. At that point I might have accepted patches to
various drivers, trying to get the issue worked out.
As it is, the only working values for PAGE_OFFSET are of the form (2^32 -
2^n), where n goes from 31 down:
0x80000000
0xC0000000
0xE0000000
0xF0000000
...
Of these, obviously only 0xC0000000 and 0x80000000 are actually all that
useful (the others give slightly more user space, but not enough to
matter, and they obviously seriously cut down into the amount of physical
memory you can have - exactly the opposite of what you want).
> I had assumed that the legacy ISA region was also mapped at PAGE_OFFSET, in
> which case the above readb would still work properly. I should have noticed
> that the change to traps.c invalidated this assumption.
The legacy ISA region actually does happen to be mapped at PAGE_OFFSET.
But that just happens to be the case, and it happens to be the case only
for an x86 implementation. It is NOT the case for any other Linux PCI
implementation I know of.
Linus
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