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SubjectRe: new bootmem structure
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>>>>> "Roman" == Roman Zippel <zippel@fh-brandenburg.de> writes:

Roman> Hi, Last week I was looking into the new bootmem stuff and got
Roman> some problems how to port that to the m68k architecture. Is
Roman> there a special reason that bootmem.c wants physical addresses?
Roman> Logical addresses would be easier for us, since we have the
Roman> possibility of all kinds of memory configurations, but
Roman> bootmem.c assumes a single memory chunk starting at zero. I
Roman> would at least suggest to add a start offset, to minimize
Roman> memory comsumption (even if it's only at boottime).

Thats the reason why we should implement PageSkip().

Jes

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