Re: SHMEM_BASE_ADDRESS

[Ray Henry <rehenry-at-up.net>]

Thanks, Eric and Paul

It does trip up the run file if it's not in there but nice to know that 
you don't have to worry about it's value if you are using a recent 
real-time kernel.

I am reasonably certain that there are a few users who still need it for 
older compiles.

Ray


On Monday 09 September 2002 01:39 pm, you wrote:
> Hi Ray
>
> SHMEM_BASE_ADDRESS is used as a "key" for shared memory in rtlinux
> systems that do not use mbuff or rtai_shm. This usually points to the
> start of a reserved block of upper memory as specified in lilo's
> "mem=xxMb".
>
> Regards, Paul.
>
> On Monday 09 Sep 2002 2:35 pm, Ray Henry wrote:
> > What is the current function of this ini variable?
> >
> > Ray