[SeaBIOS] SeaBIOS error with Juniper FreeBSD kernel

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Tue Aug 2 14:41:14 CEST 2011


On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 11:33:09AM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> "Kevin O'Connor" <kevin at koconnor.net> writes:
> > Also, it's possible the code could try to use the f-segment if there
> > are less than say 16 cpus and use high memory when more cpus are
> > present.
> 
> How about a variant over the last suggestion: Don't actually care bout
> the number of CPUs, but just fall back to malloc_high if malloc_fseg
> fails?

This could make testing painful - small changes in the code could
cause a different table layout that is OS visible.  I'd prefer a more
strict cutoff.  Though, I suppose the cutoff could be by the table
size itself instead of by number of CPUs.

-Kevin



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