From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from max.phys.uu.nl (max.phys.uu.nl [131.211.32.73]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA20384 for ; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 14:00:50 -0500 Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:12:36 +0100 (CET) From: Rik van Riel Reply-To: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: May be stupid question ;-) In-Reply-To: <364C2049.360B6131@varel.bg> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Petko Manolov Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Petko Manolov wrote: > I'm wonder if its possible to have kernel code+data > 4M? Currently not, unless you compile in all sorts of useless drivers (or you have a machine with 30+ different kinds of extension cards)... > So pg0 won't be enough. And we have to init pg1. AFAIK the kernel > don't allocate more page tables for itself while in run. It sounds > to me like troubles in the future. Most of the runtime tables are allocated after the memory stuff has been taken care off. Then we have the infrastructure to allocate as much memory as we want without problems. Rik -- slowly getting used to dvorak kbd layout... +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Linux memory management tour guide. H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl | | Scouting Vries cubscout leader. http://www.phys.uu.nl/~riel/ | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org