Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 02:15:16 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: loadable modules and allocating a big memory segment? Message-ID: <199703211015.CAA07938@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Mar 1997 01:46:57 PST." <199703210946.BAA00758@rah.star-gate.com>
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>I am thinking about loadable sound drivers and video drivers which require >continuous physical memory. > >In the case of the video drivers we may want to allocate as much as >2 megabytes of physical memory. Does current support such a memory >allocation scheme? Memory fragmentation is always a potential problem after the system has been up and running awhile, but John has made some changes recently that increase the likelihood that a chunk can be found. ...so it should work most of the time. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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