On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:39:59PM +0100, Franck Bui-Huu wrote: > I think you missed PAGE_OFFSET meaning... > > PAGE_OFFSET is the start of the kernel virtual address space and > before this patchset pa(PAGE_OFFSET) was always 0. > > In your case, you said: > > PAGE_OFFSET = 0x80000000 > PHYS_OFFSET = 0x10000000 > > this means that the first kernel virtual address is 0x80000000 and the > corresponding physical address is 0x10000000. If you load your kernel > at 0x9000xxxx, it will be loaded in physical memory located at > 0x2000xxxx which is obviously not what you want. which sound like a very bogus setup for at leat 32bit MIPS. The mapping virtual 0x80000000 to physical 0x00000000 is a CPU thing and can't be changed. Thomas. -- Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessary a good idea. [ RFC1925, 2.3 ]
