Re: Two SoC ideas (comments are welcome!)

[coly]

This is a good idea. The new structures can do what "modaddr" command
can, but more flexible.

Coly

在 2007-03-28三的 19:45 +0100，Yoshinori K. Okuji写道：
> On Sunday 25 March 2007 00:38, Andrei E. Warkentin wrote:
> > I was thinking something along an array of memory descriptor structs,
> > listing -
> > - Base
> > - Length
> > - Type (Conventional memory, Kernel + Modules, GRUB structures like
> > the MBI
> > - Attributes (read protected, write protected, cacheability attributes)
> >
> > The advantages over the old mmap_ entries being that the kernel has a
> > clear idea
> > of what is available memory, what is memory used by the bootloader
> > (and its structures like the MBI), and what
> > memory is used by everything associated with the loaded kernel (which
> > includes modules, additional ELF sections and the section headers
> > loaded).
> 
> I understand your idea. This looks good to me. Does anybody object to making 
> this change?
> 
> Okuji
> 
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