Re: Multiple Memory Chunks
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Ingo Jürgensmann
<ij@2013.bluespice.org> wrote:
>>>>> Remember that there were problems with loading 3.2.0-4-amiga without
>>>>> the memfile.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, going out of memory when allocating the page table arrays? That
>>>> won't
>>>> improve when adding 256 MiB of Z3 RAM in the far end of the physical
>>>> address space...
>>>
>>> No, but we would have more memory to waste for this. Excluding 8 MB for
>>> this from 128 MB does hurt more than 8 MB out of 384 MB. ;)
>>
>> I mean that we would waste more memory too, due to the Z3 RAM being far
>> from
>> the rest of RAM in the address space.
>
>
> Can't the MMU map the memory as needed?
If I'm not mistaken, the MMU is only used in the SPARSEMEM case.
Currently we use DISCONTIGMEM.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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