Re: May be stupid question ;-)

[Petko Manolov <petkan@varel.bg>]

Rik van Riel wrote:
> 
> Currently not, unless you compile in all sorts of useless
> drivers (or you have a machine with 30+ different kinds of
> extension cards)...

;-) No, i'm currently trying to make the kernel as small as possible
to fit in 2M of RAM (for embeded system) without any driver.

> Most of the runtime tables are allocated after the memory
> stuff has been taken care off. Then we have the infrastructure
> to allocate as much memory as we want without problems.

Yes, but all page tables are for user level code/data. I mean
we're in trouble when not all of the kernel code is paged.

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