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thanks for clearing it up

February 22, 2004 - 8:39am
Anonymous

"But for systems > 1GB RAM, there is not enough kernel virtual address to map to all the RAM, and so some of the RAM needs to be treated specially."

Ok, so basically the kernel is reinventing segmented addressing in that case ?

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