Re: Hardwired drivers are going away?

[Alan Cox]

> 1) The main kernel is contiguous in physical memory and is mapped with
>    large (4 MB) pages.  This reduces pressure on the TLB.  Modules are
> 2) Space for module code is allocated in page units.  Thus, each module
>    wastes an average of 2K.  If I'm going to have dozens of modules
>    loaded, small machines are going to notice.

If at boot time we keep a big chunk of ram free at the kernel end and just
load modules one after each other into that space until we get into real
paging that problem goes away