Re: memory allocator enhancements...

2009-04-06 Thread phcoder
phcoder wrote: Hello, one additional consideration is to let grub2 stay in memory even after OS loads. This way it would be possibly to expose any file/partition accessible through grub2 system as a virtual int13h disk. For this to be a it's very desirable to put all modules that may need to s

Re: memory allocator enhancements...

2009-04-05 Thread phcoder
Hello, one additional consideration is to let grub2 stay in memory even after OS loads. This way it would be possibly to expose any file/partition accessible through grub2 system as a virtual int13h disk. For this to be a it's very desirable to put all modules that may need to stay, the kernel

memory allocator enhancements...

2009-04-05 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Hi All, I have been thinking on how to improve memory allocator (thou hasn't got too much time lately to play with it) so it could aid in following scenarios: 1. Move VBE BIOS thunks or other code from kernel to actual driver - specially named segment that gets allocated to lowmem in order to cal