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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!ee.und.ac.za!csir.co.za!hippo.ru.ac.za!Braae!g89r4222 From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) Subject: Re: BSD vs. Linux Message-ID: <CMunDF.BDr@hippo.ru.ac.za> Sender: news@hippo.ru.ac.za (Usenet News Admin) Reply-To: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa References: <1994Mar8.141900.2906@wubios.wustl.edu> <MUTS.94Mar14231357@compi.hobby.nl> <2m837m$74@cronkite.cisco.com> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 07:27:14 GMT Lines: 31 In <2m837m$74@cronkite.cisco.com> ahasty@muadib.cisco.com writes: > Peter Mutsaers wrote in article <MUTS.94Mar14231357@compi.hobby.nl> : >> >>>> On Fri, 11 Mar 94 11:51:45 -0500, John Dyson <dysonj@delphi.com> said: >> >> JD> are starting to diverge because of enhancements being made to >> JD> FreeBSD (I have heard that the VM stuff is 14K lines of >> JD> diffs!!!) Features will be coming later. (I want my stuff to >> JD> run -- my customers don't care that I am implementing the >> JD> debugger through a procfs instead of a ptrace system call!!) >> >>Talking about (missing) features: it would be great for me if (like in >>Linux) you could use ISA DMA with more than 16MB of RAM; the DMA is >>done into the lower 16MB and copied if necessary. >>-- >Hmmm... I thought that /sys/i386/isa/isa.c:isa_dmastart took take care of >this problem. Unless the code is broken... I am running on my >system at with 20MB of memory --- granted I don't use much dma >because I got stuck with an IDE drive. John Dyson posted a few comments recently that the problem with not having DMA bounce buffers should be fixed within the next month or 2 Geoff. -- Geoff Rehmet, Computer Science Department, | ____ _ o /\ Rhodes University, South Africa |___ _-\_<, /\/\/\ email : csgr@cs.ru.ac.za | (*)/'(*) /\/\/\/\/\ : geoff@neptune.ru.ac.za |