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Date:      Wed, 3 May 1995 09:06:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
To:        davidg@Root.COM
Cc:        babkin@hq.icb.chel.su, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: How to allocate kernel address space ?
Message-ID:  <199505031606.JAA12945@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <199505031451.HAA00589@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at May 3, 95 07:51:08 am

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>    The fact that the first 1MB of physical memory is mapped at KERNBASE is a
> total hack and kludge. So converting from physical to virtual addresses using
> this is a hack. Using kvtop() to convert a virtual address to a physical one,
> however, isn't a hack at all - the information is gotten from the page tables
> as it should be.

So could we get a ptokv() ?

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent'
=> 'no rude people are relevant'



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