[Gllug] error kernel compile

Pete Ryland pdr at accucard.com
Wed Dec 3 11:25:00 UTC 2003


On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 08:12:04PM +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> As to what happens to the first 640K, I would assume it gets used just
> like any other paged memory. In fact I'd be annoyed if it didn't :-) I
> hope someone else can give us the right answer to that question.

Indeed, the 640k barrier is only significant in "real mode", and hence only
an issue at bootup.  Of course there will be holes in it (e.g. 0xa0000 and
0xb8000 are video memory) but it can otherwise be allocated normally.

Pete

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