[coyotos-dev] Fixing the kernel heap size

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 11:37 -0600, Trey Boudreau wrote:
> At Be we used one of the "large/fast segment" translation mappings
> available in the PPC and Pentium to map the video memory.  It let us map
> the (then) huge 32MB display buffers using a single entry....

Yep. All of that is doable and good, but somewhat orthogonal to the
issue at hand here. The issue here is whether *software* large mappings
can be used. Hardware large mappings is a dependent outcome on software
large mappings.

shap