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On Thursday 19 April 2007 11:57, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> : That'd be a nice fall back but it surely it can't be too hard to reserve
> : some memory for stuff like this?
>
> I think that there is a way...  We only need ~20k for this...

Is it perhaps that the loader puts the kernel low down in memory or somethi=
ng?

(Wild guess..)

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
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