I forgot about that 4MB page table thingy.........oh well......
Drew Northup, N1XIM
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
> Of Ulrich Weigand
> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 1:58 PM
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> Subject: Re: [plex86] Less than 4 meg
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>
> > 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
>
>
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> Dr. Ulrich Weigand
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