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I was thinking more specifically like https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Always-Reserve-1MB https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Always-Reserve-1MB Note that t
by hakfoo 3y ago
I was thinking more specifically like https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Always-Reserve-1MB https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Always-Reserve-1MB
Note that this was apparently a decision made in 2001. If you tried this in 1988, when 2Mb was an enormous machine, and you said to users "Yeah, only half of that will be allocated to user programs", that's not gonna fly.
- snvzz 3y agoRelative to this, the RISC-V platform specs are nice and clean. No segments, no "Conventional memory 640KB" or other such cruft.