Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:25:15 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org, gary.jennejohn@freenet.de Subject: Re: how does the kernel go about mapping memory for amd64? Message-ID: <200810131025.15570.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20081013141556.7b7a0806@ernst.jennejohn.org> References: <20081013141556.7b7a0806@ernst.jennejohn.org>
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On Monday 13 October 2008 08:15:56 am Gary Jennejohn wrote: > This behavior leads me to believe that FreeBSD is only using the memory > mapping hints provided by the BIOS and is not sizing and mapping memory > itself. > > Is that correct? Yes, we depend on the BIOS SMAP (System Map) table. -- John Baldwin
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