Re: Modularize sun2 kernel (Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/sun2/conf)

Jason Thorpe <[email protected]> Sat, 14 Mar 2020 20:10:01 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sun2,gmane.os.netbsd.devel.cvs.discuss
Message-ID <[email protected]>

> On Mar 14, 2020, at 7:57 PM, Rin Okuyama <[email protected]> =
wrote:
>=20
> I think that we can no longer support 4MB system because of (2); hangs
> due to (2) are much more serious for 4MB system than it is in 7MB =
system.
> Modern kernel allocates too much things on demand rather than =
statically
> allocating them in data segment...

We should be striving to make that work.  There are some redundant =
things (e.g. extent vs vmem) that we should explore getting rid of... =
and find ways to trim optionally functionality so we can keep these old =
systems running.

-- thorpej