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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/DEVELOPMENT b/DEVELOPMENT index 9a13217..e596276 100644 --- a/DEVELOPMENT +++ b/DEVELOPMENT @@ -13,6 +13,14 @@ within the native Mach NE2000 NIC device driver, see Support for NORMA was removed on 2006-03-20. <URL:http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2006-03/msg00007.html>. - Be sure to check the ChangeLog and have a look at the repository at that tag's state if you want to work on those parts of GNU Mach. + + +Starting with the application of the patch from +<URL:http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?func=detailitem&item_id=7118>, +GNU Mach's usage of the machine's memory equipment is currently forced to +be somewhere below 1 GiB, to make GNU Mach work at all on systems with +such enlarged RAM installations. This is--of course--not optimal. See +the calculation of and with `kernel_virtual_end' and `morevm' in +i386/intel/pmap.c and `phys_last_addr' in i386/i386at/model_dep.c. |