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Re: [PATCH] x86_64 again (related with my previous topics)
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Yoshinori K. Okuji |
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Re: [PATCH] x86_64 again (related with my previous topics) |
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Sat, 20 Aug 2005 07:32:50 +0200 |
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On Saturday 20 August 2005 00:18, Ruslan Nikolaev wrote:
> First of all I want to say that all things I said are related with x86_64.
> x86_64 implements 48-bit virtual address space. As AMD writes the bits from
> 64 to 48 (or implementation limit) should be all ones or all zeros. In that
> case with have "sign-extended" address.
Yes, but this is all about the virtual address, isn't this? GRUB deals with
the physical address of an ELF object, so I don't think GRUB should care
about this.
Okuji