Subject: Re: NetBSD on RiscPC Kinetic Card
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-arm32
Date: 06/28/2000 10:35:03
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 12:31:59PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> 
> > 	In addition to the very sage answers from people with respect
> > 	to kernel/cache page usage, NetBSD also supports multiple free
> > 	page lists, which is already used on mvme68k to prefer local
> > 	memory over vmebus memory for more frequently accessed pages...
> > 	The buffercache might be a good user of the slower memory? :)
> 
> I'm not convinced of this. Especially not in the near future, when UBC is
> will be integrated.

	After that point what would be the best approach to handling
	memory of different speeds? (I'd imagine this would also be
	an issue for the amiga port :)

		David/absolute
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