From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 3 00:51:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA22526 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 00:51:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA22512 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 00:51:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA25817 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 09:51:19 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA09755 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 09:51:18 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id JAA19302 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 09:39:08 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601030839.JAA19302@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: FreeBSD, Zappa & PCI To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 09:39:07 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199601022103.AA26983@Sysiphos> from "Stefan Esser" at Jan 2, 96 10:03:12 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Stefan Esser wrote: > > } We need ELF or some other mechanism for segment identification to > } enable kernel paging. > > Well, I don't believe in kernel paging at all! > We better kept our kernel reasonably small ... Kernel paging should not be abused as an excuse for bloated code, but it's got more merits, for example you could page out code that's needed only once (at boot time) or rarely (diagnostics code), thus freeing up valuable physical memory for more important things. Remember: disks are cheap, RAM is expensive. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)