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 -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
