Re: mmap() question

2013-10-11 Thread Dmitry Sivachenko
On 11.10.2013, at 9:17, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 03:42:27PM +0400, Dmitry Sivachenko wrote: >> Hello! >> >> I have a program which mmap()s a lot of large files (total size more that >> RAM and I have no swap), but it needs only small parts of that files at a >> tim

Re: What's the state of AF-4Kn support?

2013-10-11 Thread Ravi Pokala
Yes, the BIOS calls have always only used 512 byte sectors. There would have to be an updated spec for those, and it would be a bit of a PITA to use. I suspect the "right" answer for this on x86 is UEFI. Yeah, that's the conclusion I reached as well. Though it occurs to me, aren't we already par