Re: what is __pa(x)

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Noah Yan <yyan4@mail.uh.edu> writes:

> What a detailed explanation, It makes me much clear on this. Thanks
> very much.

It took me a while to understand it, so it helps to make sure I still
understand it.  ;)

> Still some questions on 32bit 3G/1G mode, the 1G RAM does not mean
> the machine must have physical 1G memory, it does matter if the
> machine has less or more than 1G physical RAM, right?

I imagine that if you have, e.g., 768M of RAM, you would never use
kernel virtual addresses greater than ...

  0xc0000000 + (768 * 1024 * 1024) = 0xf0000000

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong!

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