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From: "Aditya Godbole" <aag.lists@gmail.com>
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Hi,

I'm a bit confused about the link address of the kernel in
freebsd-ppc. The linker script says its 0x00100000. However on the
i386 it seems to be 3GB (KERNBASE).
Does the machine independant code not assume anything about the
location of the kernel in virtual memory?

-aditya