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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!gumby!yale!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!news.dfn.de!Sirius.dfn.de!olymp!sfb256!volker From: volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Volker A. Brandt ) Subject: Re: WFJ's talk last night... Message-ID: <1993Mar9.153812.15815@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de> Sender: usenet@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de Organization: Applied Math, University of Bonn, Germany References: <1m1a0oINN8ds@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> <1993Feb25.172414.6852@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de> <CGD.93Feb25152238@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1993 15:38:12 GMT Lines: 29 In article <CGD.93Feb25152238@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes: >In article <1993Feb25.172414.6852@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de> volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Volker A. Brandt ) writes: >>> - can use up to 1GB of RAM >> >>Even with my Adaptec 1542B busmaster DMA? This is my biggest gripe, having >>16 of my 32 MB lying on a shelf gathering dust. >if you want it, why don't you write it? Hmmm ... you are certainly right, and I guess that I will do it, given a few more years :-( >the fact that you can't address > 16M from your ISA card is a hardware >limitation that can only be gotten around via the use of bounce >buffers, or something similar. True. How hard would it be to set up something like this without breaking lots of other kernel/fs/driver/whatever stuff? >add it to the driver, and it'll probably go in. I can only hope that someone more knowledgeable than I beats me to it :-) -- Volker -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bitnet: UNM409@DBNRHRZ1 Volker A. Brandt UUCP: ...!unido!DBNRHRZ1.bitnet!unm409 Angewandte Mathematik Internet: volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de (Bonn, Germany)