Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 14:30:10 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386/loader compiled with NOFORTH Message-ID: <XFMail.20030428143010.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <3EA9ACB2.7D8504FF@mindspring.com>
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On 25-Apr-2003 Terry Lambert wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: >> > Yes, figured this out by myself already. I've ended up >> > uncommenting the "hints" line in GENERIC config, everything >> > is OK now, and bzip2(1) also works, modulo the memory >> > restrictions -- only level 1 bzipping works that requires >> > ~250K of memory. >> > >> > John, is there a way to fix btx/loader/whatever so that >> > heap memory is not limited to 640K? >> >> Not really. At least, not easily. We load the kernel up above 1mb, >> but we don't know how much memory lives up above 1mb and we assume >> that there is enough for the kernel and that's it. > > You are limited to what you can access in real mode, without > Gate A20 (16M, at which point the address space wraps). The loader doesn't run in real mode. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/
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