Need help writing a memory manager

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RharryR
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Need help writing a memory manager

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I am writing a nice little kernel. I have gotten into PMode, but now im absolutely stumped on writing a memory manager. I can't find ANY resources on it, and the wiki is no help to me. I really need some good explaining and a good tutorial. Please help.
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Re: Need help writing a memory manager

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So you saw my message telling you to read the wiki, spent less than 5 seconds (at most) looking at the wiki home page, and could find Design Considerations -> Memory and Resource Management -> Memory management? You know something that 5 seconds in ctrl-f in your browser would've found?

If you can't spend the time to help yourself, we won't waste our time telling you to RTFM

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Re: Need help writing a memory manager

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Im sorry but you obviously didnt read my post properly. I stated that the wiki was no help to me. I read through it all but did not really understand it.
Please read peoples posts properly before replying with a rather offensive rant.
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Re: Need help writing a memory manager

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RharryR wrote:Im sorry but you obviously didnt read my post properly.
Your right. I missed your signature. Taking a look through your code, you have a bit of substance there. That being said I see a bunch of problems. Also, have you seen http://wiki.osdev.org/James_Molloy%27s_ ... Known_Bugs? (Also, have you heard of attribution?)
RharryR wrote:I stated that the wiki was no help to me. I read through it all but did not really understand it.
If you can't understand any of the several pages about memory managers on the Wiki, that sounds like a failing on your part, ie. you need to learn more before attempting OSDev. If there was 1 (or 2, or a few) things in those articles that you did not understand, please feel free to let us know what small things you did not understand so we can help you. (Have you seen http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html [listed in the forum rules]?)
RharryR wrote:Please read peoples posts properly before replying with a rather offensive rant.
Please read the forum rules (and understand and follow them) before posting in these forums.

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Re: Need help writing a memory manager

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Hey!
Thanks for pointing those things out! :D
I am currently going through my code and doing a bit of cleanup and fixing up.
Hopefully I can teach myself to naviagte the wiki correctly.

Once again, thanks for you tips and help :D
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