On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 03:06:29PM +0530, Nori, Soma Sekhar wrote: > I am working towards porting 2.6.10 kernel on a mips 4kec based board > which has physical memory starting at 0x14000000. > What is the best way to overcome the "hole" from 0x00000000 to > 0x14000000 without incuring a huge memory overhead. > (For exception handling there is 4k of RAM kept at 0x00000000 also - but > I guess linux paging need need not be aware of this small RAM) You can set PAGE_OFFSET to 0x94000000. If you do this you're probably going to run into a few bugs where PAGE_OFFSET is assumed to be KSEG0, that is 0x80000000. Nothing dramatic though. Ralf