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Re: [MiNT] MiNTlibs question



Hi!

On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 03:45:31AM +0200, Guido Flohr wrote:
> I would actually prefer to change the chunk size of the kernel.  Konrad,
> Frank, your opinion?  

I'm neither Konrad, nor Frank, but lowering the chunk size of the kernel
would mean no memory protection on almost all 040-based systems, as the
MMU setups found there (which are only modified) have 8K pages. It's not
possible to have proper protection for chunks smaller than the pagesize.


Ciao

Thomas


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