mips32 kernel memory mapping

["Srinivas Kommu" <kommu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Can a 32-bit mips kernel access beyond KSEG0 contiguously? I have a Sibyte 
1250 with 1 Gig RAM, but only 256 MB is located at phyical 0x0. The rest is 
all located at 0x8000_0000. Does that mean the kernel can access only 256 
meg contiguously? Do I need to enabled CONFIG_HIGHMEM to even reach the 
remaining RAM? It appears Highmem gives me only a 4 meg window at a time. 
Can't I set up a page mapping into KSEG2 for the rest of the memory? KSEG2 
seems to be unused from what I read.

Since the user space has a 2 Gig address space, it should be able to access 
it, right? Does the kernel allocate from the whole 1 Gig when the process 
issues a malloc()?

thanks!
Srini

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