Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 22:37:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/alpha/common main.c Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009192234370.2289-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <200009180834.BAA00543@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > mjacob 2000/09/18 01:19:05 PDT > > > > Modified files: > > sys/boot/alpha/common main.c > > Log: > > Steal 512KB more from system memory for heap instead of 256KB. We died > > without the extra space. What a pity. > > Is there some way we can do this in boot1? The loader isn't going to get > a lot smaller anytime soon. 8( Uh, no. boot1 is only just a smidgen less than 40KB. John Baldwin didn't have this fix things for him either. The whole dance about memory allocation for the loader and the kernel isn't done by any stretch of the imagination. At any rate, up to 1MB for a loader that does prelinking and loading for a kernel seems not too unreasonable. If you could reclaim that later, that would be nice, but that would actually involve some real architecting instead of the current evolutionary methods. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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