> The largest structure I can think of at the moment, that I'd
> like to keep contiguous is say a full GDT (64K). Am I going
> to run into troubles trying to get something <=64K allocated
> from any of the host kernels, but which is contiguous?
Physically or virtually contiguous?
With Linux, I think there's a 128K limit on physically contigous
allocations. Virtually contiguous areas can be arbitrarily large
(using vmalloc).
> If this is a pain, I could place static variable declarations
> in the kernel code, and use that memory instead.
Eh, static variables are not necessarily physically contiguous ...
Bye,
Ulrich
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