On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 12:57:37PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> 
> AFAIK boot loaders procedures needs to divide 64-bit value by not-as-large
> value (16-bit should be enough).

Nope, the divisions are by large values.
In particular 2^11 and 2^22 (and 2^33 for that matter).
Shift and mask are your friends here!
(what does the kernel itself do - being too lazy to look)

	David

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