In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
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> This is off topic I know, but I need to create a large chunk of contiguous
> physical ram. I know that bigphysarea is a patch that can be applied to the
> kernel to do this. The only patch I have seen is for 2.2.13. Does anyone
I've also seen bigphysarea patches for later kernels, including 2.3.xx.
> know if there is a patch for 2.2.14? I'm fairly certain that the
2.2.13 > patch will work with 2.2.14 but it would be nice to know if
there is a
IIRC the 2/.2.13 patch will apply celanly (and run without problems) under 2.2.14.
> I've also heard another way is to use the memory function of lilo to tell
> linux it has less memory than is present. Then you create a device to
> access the unseen area of memory. Has anyone tried to do this, or ever
> heard of it being done?
Yes, we've used that, too. [I always use it as part of our regression
tests to see how much memory Linux really needs to run.]
Wolfgang Denk
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