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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@conectiva.com.br>
To: machael thailer <dony.he@huawei.com>
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Subject: Re: limited Memory question...
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On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:13:22AM +0800, machael thailer wrote:

> "24M" contains some debugging information. I compile it using "-g".
> code+data sections is only about 7.4M.
> 
> Can you describe your solutions in more details?

No way to load such a module into such little memory.  The only possible
solution is to drastically rewrite your module and move everything
possible into a userspace process.  For userspace processes swapping is
possible ...

  Ralf

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