On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 15:40 +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > Well you could do something more fun with the top of the address. You > don't need to keep the bytes in the same order for instance. If this > is really a fair size chunk at the bottom and one at the top then > taking the address and swapping the bytes like: > > ABCDEFGH => BCDAEFGH > > Would be a pretty trivial bit of register wibbling (ie very quick), > but would probabally mean a single flat, smaller sparsemem table would > cover all likely areas.
Not if you don't know where the objects will be mapped.. -- blue skies, Martin. Martin Schwidefsky Linux for zSeries Development & Services IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH "Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
