Subject: Re: R140 w/8 MB and multiuser
To: Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
From: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
List: port-arm26
Date: 07/02/2001 22:48:03
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Philip Blundell wrote:

> >I'm also not sure if you can hook multiple MEMCs together with <32k pages.
>
> I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work, in theory.  But I also can't
> think of any existing hardware that would conveniently allow this and still
> give you a useful amount of RAM.  I'm not sure offhand how easy it would be to
> have more than four MEMCs.

Shouldn't be much worse than four, I think.  Still a very silly thing to
try to do, though.

>  (Does NetBSD actually support four-MEMC
> configurations, out of interest?)

Yep.  One of my main development machines (the one I was demoing at
Wakefield) is an A540 with 16 MB.

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
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