On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 05:51:06PM +0100, ninjaboy wrote: > >I think you're making a confusion between physical and virtual > >addresses. __PHYSICAL_START is a physical address, as its name > >suggests, while "kernel VA" is a virtual address, as its name suggests. > > > Erm.. sure, but my question is: at __START_KERNEL_map > (0xffffffff80000000 VA) is mapped the PA 0xffff800000000000 ? > I think it's linked beginning from PAGE_OFFSET _virtual_ address. Paging is enabled in early booting point, which makes all the addresses including the kernel ones pass through the MMU. Regards, -- Ahmed S. Darwish http://darwish.07.googlepages.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
