On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 9:09 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]> wrote: > > But if the bootloader put the kernel above 4G (not sure if anybody does > this), we would lose control as soon as paging is disabled, because the > code becomes unreachable to the CPU.
I do wonder if we need this. Why would a bootloader ever put the data
above 4G? Does this really happen? Wouldn't it be easier to just say
"bootloaders better put the kernel in the low 4G"?
Linus
