From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 15 06:35:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id GAA04467 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 06:35:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from horton.iaces.com (root@horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id GAA04455 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 06:35:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.4/8.7.3) id IAA29789; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 08:35:14 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199701151435.IAA29789@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: the UNIX hole To: mbranch@svpal.org (Mike Branch) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 08:35:14 -0600 (CST) Cc: grog@lemis.de, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from Mike Branch at "Jan 14, 97 04:22:38 pm" X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services - ACES X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In a previous message, Mike Branch said: > hi, > there used to be a space in the high memory area, where > device bios often loaded in a non-contiguous fashion. > This was refered to as "the hole." (as I understand it). > I think it is between the end of the kernel and the system > bios (f000 on x86). Please correct me if you know different. > > Mike The "hole" you mean is from 640k to 1Meg. Sure that's still there, and always will be. That's the curse of the PC architecture. It is simply solved by loading the kernel starting at 1M. -- The role of the military is not to be a repository for the silly social issues of the day, but to kill people and break things. -- Rush Limbaugh