From: Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 on QNAP TS-212 NAS (kw)
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:41:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110712164141.4461bbe1@lahti.ethans.dre.am> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0e856dc1ce35b2b51ee55663f381c45d@coraid.com>
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:32:03 -0400
erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com> wrote:
> On Tue Jul 12 06:57:22 EDT 2011, eekee57@fastmail.fm wrote:
> > On Sat, 9 Jul 2011 18:40:49 -0400 erik quanstrom
> > <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> >
> > > there are assumptions about the memory size in many devices,
> > >
> > Ouch. Couldn't the kernel probe the memory size at boot time and use
> > that? Or at least have it set in a constant for a single point of
> > change?
>
> sadly no. often, probling is not possible. and assumptions about
> memory sizes and layouts are typically not possible.
>
> while you can view this as an advantage, i think this tilts toward
> disavantage in little systems that have a ddr2/3 slot. you can't
> probe it, and you can't boot unless you have exactly the correct
> memory module.
Ouch. :( At least with the 640K split you knew where the split was.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-12 15:41 UTC|newest]
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2011-07-09 15:55 ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-09 20:59 ` Jared Jennings
2011-07-09 22:33 ` Jared Jennings
2011-07-10 0:32 ` Jared Jennings
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2011-07-10 0:49 ` erik quanstrom
[not found] ` <CACXGR2SCEkWaqEPRZqe7tLgDni6BiEc09MVC-v8puJtUPO7iVQ@mail.gmail.c>
2011-07-09 22:40 ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-12 10:55 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-07-12 15:32 ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-12 15:41 ` Ethan Grammatikidis [this message]
2011-07-12 15:49 ` ron minnich
[not found] ` <CAP6exYJ+4HE4K=axuNcjgiocJKnGy8Kk4V+xjRtf_MO2djzytw@mail.gmail.c>
2011-07-12 16:09 ` erik quanstrom
[not found] ` <CACXGR2QQx=8dxFbJ0Y6eiS5dTgRA2AjpNvzQZOaVOEgt-MFnsw@mail.gmail.c>
2011-07-09 22:31 ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-09 4:38 Jared Jennings
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