[ros-dev] 2GB Boundary

Alex Ionescu ionucu at videotron.ca
Sat Oct 9 11:35:40 CEST 2004


Eric Kohl wrote:

>"Alex Ionescu" <ionucu at videotron.ca> wrote:
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>>Anyone against switching ROS to be compiled by default on the 2GB
>>boundary? (This can always be locally changed by /3GB = 1)
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>I agree! But I think we should move the ntoskrnl base address to 0x80100000
>and map the first MB of physical memory to 0x80000000 - 0x800FFFFF in order
>to simplify BIOS calls.
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>Regards,
>Eric
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Hi Eric,

Good point you make there...but won't that work only if the BIOS is set 
to Save itself in Physical Memory?

But you're absolutely right about 0x8x0000000, because it wouldn't be 
good to stick it right on the boundary for a couple of reasons.

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu


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