Re: MM with fragmented memory

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 27 Oct 1998 21:57:40 +0000 (GMT)

> without an MMU, and a completely flat memory layout. Note that if you
> don't flatten out kernel memory, I'm not sure how well the normal
> allocators are going to work.

Providing your device drivers dont care its fine. kmalloc needs to return
physically linear blocks but the kernel map doesnt

> And I don't even want to think about running from CompactFlash. Better
> just to write an hd driver them.

Or use Sandisk IDE flash chips

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