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Re: Changing PAGE_OFFSET in 2.4.10 kernel

On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:54:54AM -0800, Ravi wrote:
> Hi all,
>    I am trying to build a 2.4.10 kernel with PAGE_OFFSET set to
> 0x80000000, but couldn't get it to work so far. 
>  Kernel versions upto 2.4.2 (probably later) provided a config option
> to set the max. virtual memory. This setting would cange the value of
> PAGE_OFFSET. The config option does not exist in the 2.4.10 kernel. So
> I tried doing the changes manually: changed PAGE_OFFSET to 0x80000000
> in include/asm-i386/page.h, and changed the start of text section to
> 0x80000000 in arch/i386/vmlinux.lds. But the kernel built with these
> changes does not boot. It prints a series of 'Unable to handle kernel
> paging request..' messages and hangs. Is there any other change that
> I'm missing? 

You might want to check out hrandoz' patches for this, which I think are
in -aa


Cheers,
Bill
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