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Date:      Fri, 21 Mar 1997 02:15:16 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: loadable modules and allocating a big memory segment? 
Message-ID:  <199703211015.CAA07938@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Mar 1997 01:46:57 PST." <199703210946.BAA00758@rah.star-gate.com> 

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>I am thinking about loadable  sound drivers and video drivers which require
>continuous physical memory. 
>
>In the case of the video drivers we may want to allocate as much as
>2 megabytes of physical memory. Does current support such a memory
>allocation scheme?

   Memory fragmentation is always a potential problem after the system has
been up and running awhile, but John has made some changes recently that
increase the likelihood that a chunk can be found. ...so it should work
most of the time.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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