Subject: Re: Can netbsd/pmax use discontiguous memory?
To: Toru Nishimura <nisimura@itc.aist-nara.ac.jp>
From: Greg Ingram <ingram@symsys.com>
List: port-pmax
Date: 08/23/2001 09:16:00
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.

- Greg