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Date:      Thu, 30 Oct 2014 12:08:49 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Sourish Mazumder <sourish@cloudbyte.com>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: memory type e820
Message-ID:  <201410301208.50164.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <CABv3qbFCFUGRe7H2Huw0cTkX4sC7%2BK5pr82OyWg5Jk7sDv10Kg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thursday, October 30, 2014 1:56:00 am Sourish Mazumder wrote:
> I have nvram device in my system. I am able to detect the nvram device
> address by scanning the bios_smap.
> How do I add this new found nvram memory into kernel address space?

Do you just want to map it so you can get a valid pointer or do you want it
to be treated as normal memory by the VM system (i.e. available for use as 
pages in the VM page cache)?

-- 
John Baldwin



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