On 25-Apr-2003 Terry Lambert wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: >> > Yes, figured this out by myself already. I've ended up >> > uncommenting the "hints" line in GENERIC config, everything >> > is OK now, and bzip2(1) also works, modulo the memory >> > restrictions -- only level 1 bzipping works that requires >> > ~250K of memory. >> > >> > John, is there a way to fix btx/loader/whatever so that >> > heap memory is not limited to 640K? >> >> Not really. At least, not easily. We load the kernel up above 1mb, >> but we don't know how much memory lives up above 1mb and we assume >> that there is enough for the kernel and that's it. > > You are limited to what you can access in real mode, without > Gate A20 (16M, at which point the address space wraps). The loader doesn't run in real mode. -- John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/Received on Mon Apr 28 2003 - 09:30:11 UTC
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