Re: virtual or physical - kernelbase address?

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Parav Pandit wrote:

1. KERNELBASE default to 0xc0000000 is virtual address or physical address?

Virtual.

2. If it is virtual address than in which function MMU entry is getting created to map it to the RAM physical address?

This is done fairly early on in assembler code, in arch/i386/kernel/head.S

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