Subject: Re: Can netbsd/pmax use discontiguous memory?
To: Greg Ingram <ingram@symsys.com>
From: Dr. Christian Riede <christian.riede@security.kpnqwest.com>
List: port-pmax
Date: 08/23/2001 16:31:17
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 09:16:00AM -0500, Greg Ingram wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Toru Nishimura wrote:
> 
> > > In the meantime I was wondering if
> > > it would be possible to teach NetBSD to use 'discontiguous' memory.  I've
> > > appended some output from my box.
> > 
> > Short answer is no.  Longer one is "should be able to detect the
> > situation and do-the-right-thing," but not this time as none was
> > serious to make it so far.
> 
> Rats!  Well, how hard would it be to instruct the kernel not to use the
> memory in the second slot?  It *seems* like it shouldn't be too difficult
> and I might then be able to use 32 of my 40 megs.  This sounds like a
> generic NetBSD question and not just a port-pmax issue.  I may look for a
> different list to pester.


I hope he won't kill me for the statement, but Klaus Klein has done some
work on that...

Gruss, Christian Riede

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