Subject: Re: "generic" swap (was Re: kernel symbol tables)
To: None <perry@piermont.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 11/15/1996 14:10:19
On Fri, 15 Nov 1996 13:03:06 -0500 
 "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:

 > > greywolf is correct; Currently this is not possible.
 > 
 > This strikes me as a bug. Anyone have patches to machdep to do the
 > right thing?

It's not that simple.  MI VM code needs to be changed to allow this.
It's the whole "swap device" infrastructure that needs to change.

Someone was working on this at one time.... :-)

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