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Re: Memory allocation questions

To: dg@emarkt.com
Cc: linux-8086@vger.rutgers.edu
From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
Date: 	Sun, 13 Jul 1997 20:10:22 +0100 (BST)
Newsgroups: linux.dev.8086

> >kmalloc() function (in BigLinux) which does just that, in 4k chunks. A bit
> >primitive, but it's a kernel malloc...
> Yes, but ELKS doesn't have it. What does it use instead?

On a kernel for that small a machine kmalloc() isnt a help. Instead we have
static blocks and limits. 

Alan

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