On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:27:28AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Richard Braun, le Wed 29 May 2013 11:13:30 +0200, a écrit : > > Also, considering GNU Mach currently only manages one contiguous block > > of physical memory, > > Not really. It is already able to skip some areas as unusable, see > init_alloc_aligned().
Right, this could be used for small holes. > > and some drivers (Linux drivers mostly IIRC) assume > > that > > Really? I've mostly seen Linux drivers use virtual memory, not physical > memory. Right too, I didn't find any actually used old-style direct mem_map access. The work then reduces to parsing the E820 memory map. -- Richard Braun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
