Subject: Re: pmap_extract()?
To: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@CS.cmu.edu>
From: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/16/1997 15:50:51
On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Chris G. Demetriou wrote:

> Indeed, why would you _not_ do this?  Why does the _kernel_ need a
> 64-bit, or even 43- or 40-bit virtual address range?

'Cause with MAXBSIZE=65536, NetBSD wants *lots* of VM for buffers
on a machine with 64 GB of RAM. :-)

cjs

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