Messages in this thread | | | From | coder@kanga ... | Subject | Re: Reserving a (large) memory block | Date | Wed, 06 Sep 2000 14:01:26 -0700 |
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On 06 Sep 2000 13:54:49 +0800 Ryan Cumming <bodnar42@bodnar42.dhs.org> wrote:
>> Problem is: I don't (think I) have filesystem access at init >> time, and can't safely reserve specific physical memory after >> init which seems to leave my only option being to pass in the >> reservation specs from the bootloader, which is what rather I'm >> trying to avoid.
> Possibly... would it be pratical to have part of the module kernel > resident, and the pull its memory location/size off the kernel > command line?
Is that possible? How? Modules seem to come a long ways after init (certainly after the memory stuff is built).
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