Since we know there's always an upper bound we force that bound,
otherwise users can cause a panic via malloc getting hit with a
odd (huge or negative) amount of memory to allocate.
Tested by: kris
Pointed out by: Andrey Valyaev <dron@infosec.ru>
i386 platform boots, it is no longer ISA-centric, and is fully dynamic.
Most old drivers compile and run without modification via 'compatability
shims' to enable a smoother transition. eisa, isapnp and pccard* are
not yet using the new resource manager. Once fully converted, all drivers
will be loadable, including PCI and ISA.
(Some other changes appear to have snuck in, including a port of Soren's
ATA driver to the Alpha. Soren, back this out if you need to.)
This is a checkpoint of work-in-progress, but is quite functional.
The bulk of the work was done over the last few years by Doug Rabson and
Garrett Wollman.
Approved by: core
Alfred Perlstein
Poul-Henning Kamp
Peter Wemm
Eivind Eklund
Bruce Evans