On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 11:55:10PM +0100, Matthew Theobalds wrote:
> So what happens to the rest? The Mac OS can presumably use it, why not 
> NetBSD? This is a genuine question, it's difficult to phrase 'nicely'.

NetBSD *is* using it. For the kernel data structures it uses to keep
track of the memory it exports to the user level system, of the file
system, of the IP stack, and so forth.

It's available. It's being used. It's just not available to user
level processes (as opposed to kernel level, NOT as opposed to
root--root is a user in this context).

> That's what I've been doing. ;]

Heh. Yes, I see your problem. ;^>

If you want a pruned kernel, I probably have a 68k machine around I
can build one on to get things to a useable state.

In the long run, you definitely want more RAM, though.

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