Re: [PATCH] make the generic Linux loader usable on i386-pc again

2009-03-08 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 10:02:28PM +0200, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > > This patch makes the generic Linux loader usable on i386-pc again. It > > doesn't seem like it's badly needed to spend a bit of time and a bit of > > code in adding low memory to the heap, and Vesa's work

Re: [PATCH] make the generic Linux loader usable on i386-pc again

2009-03-07 Thread phcoder
Small word about xnu. It needs for norma booting just a quite big amount of contiguos memory anywhere below 4GiB. This is typically 64 MiB depending on the amount of loaded modules but can be much larger (e.g. if using ramdisk) In the case of resuming from hibernation it needs small amount at 0

Re: [PATCH] make the generic Linux loader usable on i386-pc again

2009-03-07 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 10:02:28PM +0200, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > > This patch makes the generic Linux loader usable on i386-pc again. It > > doesn't seem like it's badly needed to spend a bit of time and a bit of > > code in adding low memory to the heap, and Vesa's work

Re: [PATCH] make the generic Linux loader usable on i386-pc again

2009-03-06 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Robert Millan wrote: > This patch makes the generic Linux loader usable on i386-pc again. It > doesn't seem like it's badly needed to spend a bit of time and a bit of > code in adding low memory to the heap, and Vesa's work on the new memory > manager should give a proper solution to this problem.

[PATCH] make the generic Linux loader usable on i386-pc again

2009-03-06 Thread Robert Millan
This patch makes the generic Linux loader usable on i386-pc again. It doesn't seem like it's badly needed to spend a bit of time and a bit of code in adding low memory to the heap, and Vesa's work on the new memory manager should give a proper solution to this problem. I think in the meantime we