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Date:      Sun, 16 Jan 2000 15:42:39 -0600 (CST)
From:      Mohit Aron <aron@cs.rice.edu>
To:        chris@calldei.com
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: question regarding FreeBSD memory mgmt
Message-ID:  <200001162142.PAA24290@cs.rice.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20000115002134.A43216@holly.calldei.com> from "Chris Costello" at Jan 15, 2000 12:21:34 AM

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Hi,
	thanks for telling me about this. I don't care if it isn't there in
2.2.6, I managed to figure the code out in 3.x and add the appropriate code
to 2.2.6 to do just what I wanted.


- Mohit


>    STABLE (3.x) has a memcontrol(8) program that can do just that.
> I don't know off hand whether it can be ported back to 2.2.6, but
> it's worth a try.
> 
> 
>    From the memcontrol(8) man page:
> 
>      set    Set memory range attributes.
> 
>             -b base
>                     Memory range base address
> 
>             -l length
>                     Length of memory range in bytes, power of 2
> 
>             -o owner
>                     Text identifier for this setting (7 char max)
> 
>             attribute
>                     Attributes applied to this range; one of uncacheable,
>                     write-combine, write-through, write-back, write-protect
> 
> -- 
> |Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
> |Programmer: One who is too lacking in people skills
> |            to be a software engineer.
> `---------------------------------------------------
> 



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