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Re: [Xen-devel] What is machine address?

To: Kip Macy <kmacy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] What is machine address?
From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 16:43:14 -0600 (MDT)
Cc: Steven Hand <Steven.Hand@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Chengyuan Li <chengyuanli@xxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Kip Macy wrote:

> How does Plan 9 efficiently handle a large number fragmented memory
> ranges? FreeBSD can do it, but not well enough to eliminate the PA/MA
> dichotomy?

No, what I mean here is that Plan 9 would run with virtually contiguous
ranges but physically discontiguous ranges. I can't seen any reason it
won't work (yet). 

But hell, I have to get my corrupted receive ethernet packets fixed first 
:-) :-(

ron

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