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Date:      Sat, 4 Oct 2003 03:31:50 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>
To:        Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf ldscript.i386 src/sys/i386/i386 bios.c src/sys/i386/include pmap.h vmparam.h 
Message-ID:  <20031004033128.H99666-100000@mail.chesapeake.net>
In-Reply-To: <20031004015745.Q91589@odysseus.silby.com>

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On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Mike Silbersack wrote:

>
> On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Peter Wemm wrote:
>
> > > What does KERNBASE map to now?  4mb?
> >
> > Nope.  KERNBASE is unchanged.  What is different now is that the fixed 1MB
> > offset (pa = 1MB, va = KERNBASE + 1mb) is now 4MB and available via the
> > KERNLOAD variable.  This becomes 2MB on a PAE configuration kernel.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > -Peter
>
> What happens to the memory between 1MB and 4MB now?
>
> Mike "Silby" Silbersack
>

getmemsize() arranges for it to go to the vm's page pool.



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