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Date:      Thu, 4 Nov 2004 18:35:46 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@withagen.nl>
Subject:   Re: Booting questions ....
Message-ID:  <200411041835.46465.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <418AB176.9030604@withagen.nl>
References:  <418AB176.9030604@withagen.nl>

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On Thursday 04 November 2004 05:47 pm, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a place to sensibly insert memorytest routines....
>
> Currently I'd like to do that not in the loader, but in the kernel where
> memory is already setup to be one flat address space. This makes
> programming a lot simpler.

The loader does use a flat address space, it is just rooted at 0xa000 rather 
than 0x0, so you can't test the first few kb FWIW.

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