[haiku-development] Re: Writing Device Drivers Publishing notes
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 13:59:40 +0200
On 2011-05-14 at 06:33:26 [+0200], Earl Pottinger
<earl_colby_pottinger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I plan to, but you know the old saying: "Better have all others think you
> are a fool, than open your mouth and remove all doubt."
> Family problems have delay my response.
> I am collecting some sample code and explanations to show what I am seeing.
> Also I testing and removing some bugs in my own code that may account for
> some of the problems I have seen.
>
> One thing, I seem to have random crashes if I have a static array that is
> greater than 256 MB inside my driver. Is the a limit to how large a
> driver's data section can be?
The limit is more or less the size of the kernel address space (nearly 2 GB
for x86) minus other allocations. 256 MB are quite a lot though, especially,
if the system only has relatively small RAM. Even with 1 GB you'd
permanently bind 1/4 of the RAM.
CU, Ingo
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