Re: Time to fix the memory allocation on port-amiga

[Frank Wille <frank%phoenix.owl.de@localhost>]

On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 13:06:22 +0100
Ignatios Souvatzis <is%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:

> > For a while I've written about how a 256 meg Amiga system can't
> > access enough memory properly. For the purposes of running a bulk
> 
> You'll probably have to rewrite the pmap code in the kernel. The 
> old one could only handle a limited amount of kernel virtual 
> memory - which is also needed to hold the page tables for user
> processes, which can be huge for X-servers operating on more
> modern graphics cards.
> 
> The old pmap only had a limited amount of 2nd level descriptors;
> fitting into one 8k page, and leaving one for the first level.
> 
> I don't recall whether we relaxed that limitation a while ago.

Didn't we switch to m68k/m68k/pmap_motorola.c some months ago, like all
68k-ports did? Or doesn't that matter?

-- 
Frank Wille