Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: new bootmem structure | From | Jes Sorensen <> | Date | 01 Nov 1999 14:12:55 +0100 |
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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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