From owner-cvs-sys Wed Sep 4 00:06:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-cvs-sys Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA28862 for cvs-sys-outgoing; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 00:06:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.tfs.com ([140.145.230.252]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA28849; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 00:06:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.tfs.com (localhost.tfs.com [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA08202; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 08:36:56 +0200 (MET DST) To: Paul Traina cc: Nate Williams , CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 machdep.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 03 Sep 1996 21:19:11 PDT." <199609040419.VAA04218@precipice.shockwave.com> Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 08:36:55 +0200 Message-ID: <8200.841819015@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199609040419.VAA04218@precipice.shockwave.com>, Paul Traina writes: >This wastes a K of memory for everyone who's got an Adaptec controller. >Could we be a little more intelligent about this? 4k actually. No, there is no way of knowing if we will need that mem or not, all we can see is that somebody claimed it, and we don't know who of the usual suspects it is, so we have to be conservative. The SMP bios for instance can also have some stuff stashed here. Come on, one page more or less... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.