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Re: [bigmem-patch] 4GB with Linux on IA32

On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, David S. Miller wrote:

>   From: kanoj@google.engr.sgi.com (Kanoj Sarcar)
>   Date:   Mon, 16 Aug 1999 16:28:58 -0700 (PDT)
>
>   For example, on a 2.2.10 kernel:
>   [kanoj@entity kern]$ gid __va | grep drivers
>   drivers/char/mem.c:124: if (copy_to_user(buf, __va(p), count))
>   drivers/char/mem.c:142: return do_write_mem(file, __va(p), p, buf, count, ppos);
>
>Ok, this one could be a problem.

It isn't. The bigmem is not readable from /dev/mem right now.

Andrea

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