[syslinux] New __lowmem declaration
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Tue Jun 2 17:15:31 PDT 2009
I decided that we really needed the ability to allocate a lowmem buffer
(a buffer in the low 1 MB, so we can pass the address to SEG() and
OFFS()) in core C code. It might not be necessary in the long run, but
in the short term it should help development along.
To use it, #include "core.h" and declare a buffer with __lowmem:
static __lowmem char buffer[4096];
Right now the total amount of __lowmem is limited to little over 100K;
this is enough to put the cache buffer in (in which case we can
immediately remove the cache_buf_seg). In the long run, we want to
minimize this as much as is practical, although in the famous words of
Albert Einstein:
"Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler."
-hpa
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