I forgot about that 4MB page table thingy.........oh well......

Drew Northup, N1XIM


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
> Of Ulrich Weigand
> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 1:58 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [plex86] Less than 4 meg
> 
> 
> 
> > yes, you can change this in the config file:
> > 
> > memory = 2
> > 
> > for 2MB of memory.
> > If this doesn't work then we'll need to fix it!!!
> 
> Actually, this doesn't work as we currently only
> allocate guest memory in increments of 4MB.
> 
> The reason for this is simply that we always
> allocate *full* page tables for the guest physical
> memory, and a single page table holds 1024 pages,
> i.e. 4MB memory.
> 
> To change this, we'd need to cope with partially-
> filled page tables.  While not especially difficult,
> this needs some additional code which we haven't
> considered to be particularly important up to now ...
> 
> Bye,
> Ulrich
> 
> 
> -- 
>   Dr. Ulrich Weigand
>   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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