Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Memory between 640K-1M | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Date | 18 May 1998 11:35:03 +0200 |
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Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be> writes:
|> On 17 May 1998, H. Peter Anvin wrote: |>> By author: Adam Fritzler <afritz@delphid.ml.org> |>> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel |>> > |>> > |>> > On somewhat related note, does Linux support non-contiguous memory? (as is |>> > occurs when you have to use the 'memory hole' option in many new |>> > pentium bios's for some old cards) |>> > |>> |>> No (except for the 640K-1024K memory hole), but it shouldn't be *too* |>> hard to add.
|> Especially when keeping in mind that non-contiguous memory is supported on |> non-Intel architectures (e.g. m68k).
Actually this is not really true, since we remap memory to make it contiguous. Having holes in memory also means having holes in mem_map.
-- Andreas Schwab "And now for something schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de completely different" schwab@gnu.org
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