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-IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-10:
-
- <braunr> antrik: about our physical memory limitations, i told you some
- time ago that part of it was due to the linux drivers
- <braunr> and i mentioned the paper concerning the integration of the linux
- drivers written at the time
- <braunr> it does indeed tell that mach, which used the common 3G->4G area
- for the kernel space had to be adapted
- <braunr> because linux used segmentation so that kernel addresses matched
- physical addresses
- <braunr> and it looks like some (many) drivers require that
- <braunr> our current gnumach actually does this (which i found surprising
- when i first found it)
- <braunr> and i believe the easy solution to exceed this limitation is to
- use a strategy similar to what linux still does on i386
- <braunr> some highmem support
- <braunr> we could alter the vm_resident module so that, by default, it
- still looks for pages in the low 0-800 (or 0-1800 on debian patched
- kernels) area
- <braunr> but for everything else than the kernel, e.g. all user processes
- <braunr> we could use a flag or a specialized function that would first
- look in the highmem pool for available physical pages to map
- <braunr> the only thing i'm not yet sure of is about user/kernel transfers
- <braunr> if virtual addresses and copies are always cleanly done, then it's
- ok
- <braunr> and i really hope our linux drivers do so :)
- <braunr> (i mean ,the glue code ofc)
-
-2011-10-23:
-
- <youpi> braunr: I believe, like Linus, that highmem support is a nightmare
- <antrik> braunr: uhm... the drivers want virtual addressses to match
- physical ones? I guess that means switching address spaces before any
- driver code is executed?...