christoph_eg...@gmx.de said: > How about making paddr_t always 64bit? That makes it much easier to > deal with in libkvm.
I don't think this is a good argument. The little gain of making a rarely used library like libkvm simpler can't justify adding overhead to the kernel. PAE is a "bridge technology", interesting only for few systems. Users of low-end i386 systems would be penalized, and most users of boxes with >4G memory would gain nothing because they run a 64-bit system anyway. So, imho, no kernel overhead is acceptable. best regards Matthias ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH 52425 Juelich Sitz der Gesellschaft: Juelich Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Dueren Nr. HR B 3498 Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: MinDirig Dr. Karl Eugen Huthmacher Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr. Achim Bachem (Vorsitzender), Dr. Ulrich Krafft (stellv. Vorsitzender), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Bolt, Prof. Dr. Sebastian M. Schmidt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
