Problem with Mapping System Memory to User Space (Re: Kernel - Modules and Compiled in)

2002-09-21 Thread Christian Zander
On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 06:50:09AM +0200, Christian Zander wrote: > > Maybe it helps to get an idea of what memory allocation sizes we > are talking about for the NVIDIA driver. For every single OpenGL > client in the system memory case (no AGP), the resource manager > has to allocate ~1MB (in mu

Re: Kernel - Modules and Compiled in

2002-09-21 Thread Christian Zander
On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 12:42:07AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > this is false. If you load the module from the boot loader there > is no difference between that and having it be actually compiled > into the kernel in terms of resource allocation. > > However, this is true if you intend to lo

Re: Kernel - Modules and Compiled in

2002-09-20 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <20020915203835.GA3497@gallium> Dominic Marks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : disadvantages: : some drivers need to be able to allocate a large chunk of contiguous : memory to operate correctly, this means some drivers cant work when not : compiled in to the kernel (becaus