Re: [bug #17346] GNU mach can't handle 4GB memory

[Richard Braun]

On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 02:12:33PM +0200, Constantine Kousoulos wrote:
> Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> >On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 16:15 +0200, Constantine Kousoulos wrote:
> >>All the above solutions aim to make Mach unaware of any memory 
> >>above 1 GB. Isn't it possible to utilise all the memory? I will 
> >>explain myself.
> >
> >I think this is clearly right, but it may well require more substantial
> >changes to actually make it work.
> >
> 
> Can you give us a few directions?

It really depends on the way you implement it. Mach is damn slow, let's
not make it slower by changing the kernel address space in a way that
would prevent it from being included in user address spaces. On the
other hand, implementing something like kmap() is, as Samuel said,
bug-prone. And again, I really don't think changing such low level
stuff in GNU Mach (which would automatically create new bugs) is
a priority, since 512/1024 MB are very common RAM sizes. In other words,
I'd suggest staying with the suggested changes to limit the amount of
physical memory to 1 GB until someone *really* takes the time to propose
and implement a suitable solution for handling more memory.

-- 
Richard Braun

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