On 9 May, Terry Lambert wrote: > Chris BeHanna wrote: >> And, why aren't Bosko's patches in the tree? > > I don't know. I do know that they increased the minimum memory > requirements by 4M (part of Bosko's approach to a fix requires > linking the kernel with a base address aligned on a 4M boundary). How hard would it be to make this a compile time option? Small memory machines are unlikely to want to use 4 MB pages anyway. In other words a configuration option that would disable 4 MB pages and put the kernel at its current location when set one way, and would enable 4MB pages and relocate the kernel on a 4 MB boundary when set the other way. I really dislike our default configuration of a little bit more speed at the expense of data integrity. If that's what I really wanted, I could probably get even more speed by overclocking.Received on Fri May 09 2003 - 22:26:32 UTC
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