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From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Regarding virtual to physical memory mapping..
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 13:53:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100101125333.GS3692@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B3C9989.3000206@gmail.com>

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 01:31:05PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> > I wanted to know whether I can allocate some
> > memory in the region below 1MB?
> Only in experimental branch. But we're not currently sure if we will use
> this.

We can use this.  My concerns are with making intrusive changes in the
standard heap.  I think it's important that kern/mm.c is small and simple,
but this doesn't preclude doing more fancy stuff in non-core areas.

Sorry if I was unclear about it.

-- 
Robert Millan

  "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-01 12:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-31 12:15 Regarding virtual to physical memory mapping kiran pawar
2009-12-31 12:31 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-12-31 13:36   ` Javier Martín
2010-01-01 12:53   ` Robert Millan [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-01-10  6:07 kiran pawar

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