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Subject: Submission for comp-unix-microport
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Date: 5 Jan 89 21:13:27 GMT
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From: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: memory allocation for kernel and buffers
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Date: 1 Jan 89 17:56:33 GMT
Organization: Branch Technology, Ann Arbor, MI
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This is a plea for '386 unix vendors to allocate memory for buffers and
kernel space starting from the highest addresses.  It will really help
some of us who have some 16 bit memory.

In the mean time, does anyone have a work-around - perhaps a patch for 
the disk buffer allocation module.


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  Jon Zeeff			zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us
  Support ISO 8859/1		zeeff%b-tech.uucp@umix.cc.umich.edu
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