Re: 2.3.99-3 axp combo patch

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Richard Henderson wrote:

>Why would I need a special section?  I reference the pages

half of the zero page is used to pass the kernel params. We rely on having
the zero page that nobody is using before we get the parameter to write
the stuff there (if something else is allocated at the PGE offset the
bootloader will overwrite kernel data I guess).

Also assuming all is fine by making it dynamic I don't really see what you
buy by making such offsets variable. That's core stuff and it's fine to
have it hardcoded. We'll continue to need it tomorrow and we'll still need
it to be page size large and page aligned.

Andrea