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- From: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
- Subject: Re: [386BSD] more than 16MB?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.203341.6812@tfs.com>
- Organization: TRW Financial Systems
- References: <C0EHx0.qr@space.physics.uiowa.edu> <1if0p8INNfau@Germany.EU.net>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 20:33:41 GMT
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- In article <1if0p8INNfau@Germany.EU.net> bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) writes:
- >In article <C0EHx0.qr@space.physics.uiowa.edu>, ljg@space.physics.uiowa.edu (Larry Granroth) writes:
- >> Is anyone out there running 386bsd on an ISA-bus machine with more than
- >> 16MB ram?
- >
- >Yes. I've seen a machine with 20MB and heard of one with 64 MB
- >(yes, sixty-four) No, not me...
- I doubt this very much
-
-
- The problem is that for reasons not obvious (but real) the kernel
- is compiled for FE000000. This is 32MB below the top
- of the address space. The kernel for 0.1 requires that it map
- the entire physical address space above this address, PLUS some other
- areas that are mapped in a non 1:1 manner (e.g. raw-IO address translation
- buffers)
- the upshot of this is that 386BSD can only make use of (32 - X)MB of real
- ram (where X is an unknown number) 20MB certainly works.
-
- 0.2 solves this shortcoming by some rather ingenious means.
-
- >
- >> Does 386bsd support this?
- >
- >Looks like it.
- 20 works, 24 may work.. after that I doubt it.
- (bill has some special compiles for >> 32MB but they require several
- patches and 0.2 should solve the problem properly)
-
- >
- >> Does it (does it need to?) support
- >> DMA above 16MB?
- >
- >No idea. I'd be interested in the answer, though.
- for floppy, the dma is supplimented by a bounce buffer.
- for SCSI it is not.
- however the EISA scsi drivers do support 32 bit adresses. so bounce buffers
- are not needed.
- >
- >-Bernard
-
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