Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 22:49:41 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/alpha/common main.c Message-ID: <200009200549.WAA02292@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 Sep 2000 22:37:09 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009192234370.2289-100000@beppo.feral.com>
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> > > 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. Sorry, I meant "can't we have boot1 steal the memory rather than having the loader do it"? > 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. The only real challenge would seem to be the trampoline necessary in between leaving the loader and calling the kernel proper. I'm sure one of our burgeoning Alpha hackers could cough something like that up in a day or so. 8) -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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