Re: physical address management, round 2

[Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi%tombi.co.jp@localhost>]

First step would be to start with populating the single, MI
"phys_space_arena" and manage physical address "space".  (This
needs vmem(9) to be bootstrapped very early.) If this is done, and
with my vm_physseg'ification, lots of MD code would be cleaned up.

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 04:36:22PM -0600, David Young wrote:
> Recent mention of ECC RAM, XIP, and DRM remind me that I wrote back
> in March 2008 to tech-kern about "physical address space management,"
> where I'd offered some concepts and a nascent API for organizing and
> controlling physical addresses in the kernel.  I'd sure like to have
> more feedback in light of the past two years' kernel development and the
> challenges that confront kernel developers, today.
> 
> Dave
> 
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