From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1NQh0g-0007xH-F2 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 07:53:42 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NQh0e-0007xC-SE for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 07:53:40 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NQh0a-0007wc-6o for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 07:53:40 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46057 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NQh0a-0007wZ-3V for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 07:53:36 -0500 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8]:56875 helo=aybabtu.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NQh0Z-0001jc-Ku for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 07:53:35 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NQh0Y-00065X-3h for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:53:34 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NQh0X-0003vf-KC for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:53:33 +0100 Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 13:53:33 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GNU GRUB Message-ID: <20100101125333.GS3692@thorin> References: <97c3ddb10912310415y5033b4bbu45f68ba9fd519a09@mail.gmail.com> <4B3C9989.3000206@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4B3C9989.3000206@gmail.com> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: Regarding virtual to physical memory mapping.. X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:53:41 -0000 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