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x86 Paging Tutorial / Identity mapping by

Ciro Santilli 37  Updated 2025-05-26  +Created 1970-01-01

FFFFF 000 points to its own physical address FFFFF 000. This kind of translation is called an "identity mapping", and can be very convenient for OS-level debugging.

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