Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 22:07:36 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Subject: Re: mapping memory inside the kernel? Message-ID: <199704291207.WAA02311@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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>Subject: mapping memory inside the kernel?
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>Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 15:43:17 +0930 (CST)
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>A question for those familiar with the workings of the kernel wrt.
>load-time and mappings;
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>If I want to load extra data after the kernel, and not have it clobbered
>by the bss clearing in locore.s, how should this be done?
Some way better than now :-). See the current handling of kernelname[]
for how not to do it. (A 1K buffer is reserved at compile time. This
usually wastes 1K - (strlen("kernel") + 1) bytes.) Fixing this would
be a good warmup.
Bruce
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