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>>>>> "Gordon" == Gordon W Ross <gwr@mc.com> writes:
    Gordon> Does that mean I should pull stuff out of GENERIC until it can
    Gordon> fit into the 1MB region?  Or somehow add support for booting
    Gordon> kernels that use more than 1MB for the initial load?

  Frankly, I'd like to see both.

    Gordon> Note that Sun3 PROMs do not promise to make more than 1MB of
    Gordon> contiguous memory available, so supporting larger kernels will
    Gordon> require significant work in the boot programs and the kernel.
    Gordon> The rule: KVA = PA + KERNBASE would no longer be true in all
    Gordon> memory initially mapped for the kernel.  Messy...

    Gordon> I still favor the LKM solution.

  I personally hate LKMs. Making sure that ps/kvm_mkdb is up-to-date
wrt the kernel is bad enough.

  However, if the install kernel needs LKMs to do some stuff, I don't mind.
I can build a new kernel later. I don't know where the LKMs will get loaded
from though.

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