TASK_SIZE default 0x80000000 ?

Dan Malek dan at embeddedalley.com
Mon Oct 8 04:35:26 EST 2007


On Oct 7, 2007, at 8:02 AM, Kumar Gala wrote:

> It would seem like we should set the default on 8xx & PReP to
> 0x80000000 and not allow it to be modified

For as much as this has been discussed in the past,
I don't know why the 8xx doesn't check KERNEL_BASE
and work properly with the options.  There is no reason
this can't work.  The history is I wrote the tlb handlers
to test the MS bit due to a hardcoded address, not that
the address is hardcoded because I wanted to just
test a bit.  Unlike PReP, there is no reason to
disallow modification, if this test was changed.

Thanks.

	-- Dan





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