Hi,
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 17:26:35 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dietmar
Stein) said:
> I got 1 GB RAM on my motherboard - is there any limit for SHMMAX except
> the installed RAM (for example: will 0x3d000000 work? nearly 1GB)?
> The system is an SMP with two PII-400; also an Intel based system (32
> bit).
The main limits in practice concern the amount of contiguous free
address space you can find in a user process when you come round to
actually map the segment.
> Another question (just a little bit off-topic): I got your
> raw-devices-patch for kernel 2.2.4 yesterday and applied it to the
> kernel; compilation is allright but during bootup the module wasn't
> loaded.
There isn't a module.
> I don't see any option in "make menuconfig" to enable raw-devices; is
> that right or Did I something wrong (patch applied with cd
> /usr/src/linux ; patch -p0 < patch...)?
That's right: it kind of assumes that if you patch the thing, you want
raw devices, so it doesn't ask you again!
--Stephen
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