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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ieunet!news.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Building a kernel larger than 640K Date: 11 Nov 1993 09:48:55 GMT Organization: Lotus Development Ireland Lines: 22 Distribution: world Message-ID: <JKH.93Nov11014855@whisker.lotus.ie> References: <2ahdk8$rjk@alva.ge.com> <JKH.93Oct26164254@whisker.lotus.ie> <2bohik$1g1@keltia.frmug.fr.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: whisker.lotus.ie In-reply-to: Ollivier.Robert@keltia.frmug.fr.net's message of 9 Nov 1993 16:47:02 GMT In article <2bohik$1g1@keltia.frmug.fr.net> Ollivier.Robert@keltia.frmug.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) writes: When one builds such a kernel, are the 640 KB lost or do they get back into the memory pool ? From my experience, it seems that they're lost... For the moment, a large chunk of the 640K is lost but this is should be fixed in 1.1. Do you plan to implement such bounce buffers or does one must get an EISA motherboard in order to use more than 16 MB ? I've heard that they are/were used by the floppy driver. Again, perhaps in 1.1 - I do know that various people are working on it. Offers of assistance always appreciated! :-) Jordan -- (Jordan K. Hubbard) jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, jkh@al.org, jkh@whisker.lotus.ie I do not speak for Lotus, nor am I even a Lotus employee. I am an independent contractor.