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Re: [uvm_hotplug] Fixing the build of tests




> On Dec 16, 2018, at 4:03 PM, matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost> wrote:
> 
> unfortunately, UVM has no good mechanism for dealing with
> large page sizes and AFAICT, netbsd only uses them for
> unmanaged mappings for kernels (and thus, is entirely MD
> in implementation and use), and we don't try to keep
> large-page sizes areas available so they're never going
> to exist after boot.  early mapped libc.so probably
> would be OK but everything else sounds like a lot of work
> we haven't even planned out.

Oh, I'm well aware that UVM doesn't have any infrastructure for this.  I'm just throwing out ideas in hopes of inspiring someone :-)

-- thorpej



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