Re: [PATCH 04/13] x86, mm: Revert back good_end setting for 64bit

[H. Peter Anvin]

That disappeared 10 years ago...

ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> On 10/05/2012 02:41 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>> Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>
>>>> with bzImage or vmlinux?
>>>
>>> bzImage I presume.  Certainly the bzImage has lost it's 896M limit,
>>> which is where ultimiately the 896M limite came from.
>>>
>>
>> ~896M (actually comes from i386, not from bzImage...
>
>Right it was 1G - VMALLLOC_SIZE.
>
>At some point that affected the boot protocol as the maximum address we
>could load ramdisks.
>
>Eric

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