From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 29 13:38:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E6EE37B401 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 13:38:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from k6.locore.ca (k6.locore.ca [198.96.117.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB84D43E7B for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 13:38:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jake@k6.locore.ca) Received: from k6.locore.ca (jake@localhost.locore.ca [127.0.0.1]) by k6.locore.ca (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7TKiG8a067590; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:44:16 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jake@k6.locore.ca) Received: (from jake@localhost) by k6.locore.ca (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g7TKiGSj067589; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:44:16 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:44:16 -0400 From: Jake Burkholder To: Terry Lambert Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More dynamic KVA_SPACE Message-ID: <20020829164416.A67527@locore.ca> References: <3D6E78DA.D1608F0F@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3D6E78DA.D1608F0F@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 12:41:14PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Apparently, On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 12:41:14PM -0700, Terry Lambert said words to the effect of; > Aaro J Koskinen wrote: > > I've been thinking what kind of modifications would it need to decide > > the KVA space size at the kernel boot time (maybe an argument to > > btext), instead of compile time. In theory I can't see any obstacles. > > > > Basically the approach would be simply the following: > > [ ... approach ... ] > > > Am I completely off the track? What are the main reasons behind the > > current KVM layout? > [ ... hacks ... ] > > If you need a larger amount of UVA space, you might want to consider > buying an IA64 machine, instead, since the bigger your iron, the > bigger your KVA space requirements will be. What, no UltraSPARC? :) :) :) Jake To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message