Push kernel/user limit to 2GiB, so Mach can address up to close to 2GiB memory. This makes glibc's local-bigmem.diff patch mandatory. Index: gnumach/i386/include/mach/i386/vm_param.h =================================================================== --- gnumach.orig/i386/include/mach/i386/vm_param.h 2012-06-10 23:45:02.000000000 +0200 +++ gnumach/i386/include/mach/i386/vm_param.h 2012-07-14 15:57:26.423861314 +0200 @@ -73,6 +73,6 @@ with that. */ #define VM_MIN_ADDRESS (0) -#define VM_MAX_ADDRESS (0xc0000000UL) +#define VM_MAX_ADDRESS (0x80000000UL) #endif /* _MACH_I386_VM_PARAM_H_ */ Index: gnumach/i386/Makefrag.am =================================================================== --- gnumach.orig/i386/Makefrag.am 2012-06-10 23:45:02.000000000 +0200 +++ gnumach/i386/Makefrag.am 2012-07-14 15:57:26.427861233 +0200 @@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST += \ i386/ldscript if PLATFORM_at gnumach_LINKFLAGS += \ - --defsym _START=0xC0100000 \ + --defsym _START=0x80100000 \ --defsym _START_MAP=0x100000 \ -T '$(srcdir)'/i386/ldscript endif Index: gnumach/i386/i386/vm_param.h =================================================================== --- gnumach.orig/i386/i386/vm_param.h 2012-06-10 23:45:02.000000000 +0200 +++ gnumach/i386/i386/vm_param.h 2012-07-14 15:57:44.559495669 +0200 @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ /* This can be changed freely to separate kernel addresses from user addresses * for better trace support in kdb; the _START symbol has to be offset by the * same amount. */ -#define VM_MIN_KERNEL_ADDRESS 0xC0000000UL +#define VM_MIN_KERNEL_ADDRESS 0x80000000UL #ifdef MACH_XEN /* PV kernels can be loaded directly to the target virtual address */ Index: gnumach/i386/xen/Makefrag.am =================================================================== --- gnumach.orig/i386/xen/Makefrag.am 2012-07-14 15:58:19.998781083 +0200 +++ gnumach/i386/xen/Makefrag.am 2012-07-14 15:58:30.254574271 +0200 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ libkernel_a_SOURCES += \ if PLATFORM_xen gnumach_LINKFLAGS += \ - --defsym _START=0xC0000000 \ - --defsym _START_MAP=0xC0000000 \ + --defsym _START=0x80000000 \ + --defsym _START_MAP=0x80000000 \ -T '$(srcdir)'/i386/ldscript endif Index: gnumach/i386/xen/xen_boothdr.S =================================================================== --- gnumach.orig/i386/xen/xen_boothdr.S 2012-07-14 15:58:13.358914976 +0200 +++ gnumach/i386/xen/xen_boothdr.S 2012-07-14 15:58:39.790381972 +0200 @@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ .ascii "GUEST_OS=GNU Mach" .ascii ",GUEST_VERSION=1.3" .ascii ",XEN_VER=xen-3.0" - .ascii ",VIRT_BASE=0xC0000000" - .ascii ",ELF_PADDR_OFFSET=0xC0000000" + .ascii ",VIRT_BASE=0x80000000" + .ascii ",ELF_PADDR_OFFSET=0x80000000" .ascii ",HYPERCALL_PAGE=0x2" #if PAE .ascii ",PAE=yes[extended-cr3]"