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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!hookup!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!ponderous.cc.iastate.edu!michaelv From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD SoundBlaster support Date: 12 Aug 94 18:28:03 GMT Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa Lines: 17 Message-ID: <michaelv.776716083@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> References: <321lar$k58@qualcomm.com> <323cbg$mo9@agate.berkeley.edu> <323g2o$93c@sandra.teleport.com> <32g39d$ped$2@heifetz.msen.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ponderous.cc.iastate.edu In <32g39d$ped$2@heifetz.msen.com> root@cybernet.com (Operator (aka Mark Taylor)) writes: >I think that the 640Kbyte limit is on the DATA+TEXT segment size. There is some >stuff in the kernel that is neither (?). I've got a 1.1.5.1 kernel which has >SoundBlaster, ethernet, SCSI, and NFS, etc..., support which is 670679 bytes long. No, I don't believe this is the correct answer. The reason NetBSD doesn't care about kernels bigger than 640k is that it loads them *above* the 1MB memory boundary, thereby bypassing the 640k limit altogether. I would expect that FreeBSD does the same thing. -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Michael L. VanLoon Iowa State University Computation Center michaelv@iastate.edu Project Vincent Systems Staff Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free Un*x for PC/Mac/Amiga/etc. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -