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## bigphysarea and 2.0.33

  Forum: Supporting Functions
  Re: Allocating large amount of memory (Michael K. Johnson)
  Re: bigphysarea for Linux 2.0? (Greg Hager)
  Re: bigphysarea for Linux 2.0.3{0,1} (Michael K. Johnson)
  Keywords: memory allocation Linux 2.0
  Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 22:31:11 GMT
  From: Sean Levy <snl@cs.cmu.edu>

In attempting to apply the bigphysarea-2.0.32 patch to a 2.0.33 kernel, I found one minor problem that you might want to be aware of. When building after patching the source, I got a warning about `bigphysarea_init()` being undeclared in init/main.c. I noticed that you explicitly declare `bigphysarea_setup()` if the #ifdef in main.c instead of just including `<linux/bigphysarea.h>`, which seemed like the right thing to do, so I changed init/main.c to do that and got rid of the warning. The 2.0.33 kernel with the bigphysarea-2.0.32 patch in it seems happy, though I have to wait for feedback from the user who was planning on installing the framegrabber to see if it crashes. FYI, this is 2.0.33 with some patches for our use here at CMU: Modular sound driver AFS server support (experimental) Detect >64MB memory Secure boot command-line Pax, Sean Levy, CS Facilities, CMU