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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
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References: <321lar$k58@qualcomm.com> <323cbg$mo9@agate.berkeley.edu> <323g2o$93c@sandra.teleport.com> <32g39d$ped$2@heifetz.msen.com>
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In <32g39d$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.
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Michael L. VanLoon Iowa State University Computation Center
michaelv@iastate.edu Project Vincent Systems Staff
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