4 Dec
2002
4 Dec
'02
9:55 a.m.
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, steven james wrote:
My understanding is that it is used to accomodate PCI memory mappings. The layout is regular memory, then PCI devices, APICs and flash, then any physical ram above remap_high goes over the 4Gig mark (for PAE).
yea, I read the sense of that remap_high variable backwards: I thought it meant "remap high memory to low" but it mean "remap low memory to high".
Very cool.
Anybody remember when 32 bits seemed like a lot of memory?
ron