Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 09:13:38 +0100 From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf LINT src/sys/i386/include console.h mouse.h src/sys/i386/isa kbdio.h mse.c psm.c syscons.c Message-ID: <19971208091338.59077@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199712080131.XAA24122@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br>; from Joao Carlos Mendes Luis on Sun, Dec 07, 1997 at 11:31:12PM -0200 References: <199712080114.KAA00192@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> <199712080131.XAA24122@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br>
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As Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote: > Unfortunatly, kernel swapping or kernel routines memory disposal is not > an easy thing to do. It could be easy with the availability of more sections in the executable once we change to ELF. ;-) (There's IMHO nothing preventing you from declaring parts of the kernel to be pageable, apart from that you need to make a distinction between pageable and non-pageable regions somehow. Three sections in a.out is apparently too few to remember this disctinction.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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