Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 23 Nov 1996 19:45:18 -0800 (PST) | From | Michael Neuffer <> | Subject | Re: Bugs and wishes in memory management area |
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On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > > At work, we use Linux/X/GNU as development system (about 15 linux > > > stations). 2 megs is probably just enough to load the kernel and > > > kernel is not pageable. > > > > If the machine has enough memory, the kernel should be loaded at > > the 16 MB mark. > > Thats something that was kicked around ages ago. However it fundamentally > changes an assumption used by a lot of drivers that their static structures > are in DMA space.
Not true, at least not generally.
Drivers that are modularized were never able to make this assumption.
Mike
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