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From: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Subject: Re: Maximal kernel size (Actually new boot blocks)
Message-ID: <1992Sep18.011215.24165@tfs.com>
Organization: TRW Financial Systems
References: <16.2AB9049E@purplet.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1992 01:12:15 GMT
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In article <16.2AB9049E@purplet.demon.co.uk> jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk (Mike Jagdis) writes:
>JE> The new bootblocks (BIOS based) will load the kernel to
>JE> wherever it is linked
>JE> to e.g. if you link for FE100000 it will load to 100000.
>
>Oh wow! Am I right in thinking that the lower 640k (less a bit) gets added
>to the VM pool as well?
>
> Mike
>
Well, that's not under the control of the boot blocks
One would assume that the person experimenting with make the kernel
link for 1MB would add code in it to do this.
I'm just providing the mechanism to allow them to do it.
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