Re: [OpenBIOS] [PATCH] RFC: Increase dictionary size on SPARC64

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Blue Swirl wrote:
> > I honestly don't know enough to make an informed choice, although my
> > feeling is that since PPC has 512K (and it will obviously be enough to solve
> > the problem with OpenSolaris) then it can't be too bad an option. Does
> > anyone else have a feeling one way or the other?
>
> One possible problem may be that we overrun the 32 bit address space,
> because there is only 3M available: 0xffd00000 to 0xffffffff.

Hmmm. Would that matter even for a 64-bit architecture like SPARC64? It 
wouldn't affect any of the other architectures except for PPC which 
already has a default of 512K rather than 256K. Also even with 
MEMORY_SIZE and DICTIONARY_SIZE set to 512K, that's still just 1M...

ATB,

Mark.