Seeding of typed memory regions

Under QNX Neutrino, typed memory objects are defined from the memory regions specified in the asinfo section of the system page. Thus, typed memory objects map directly to the address space hierarchy (asinfo segments) define by startup. The typed memory objects also inherit the properties defined in asinfo, namely the physical address (or bounds) of the memory segments.

In general, the naming and properties of the asinfo entries is arbitrary and is completely under the user's control. There are, however, some mandatory entries:

memory
Physical addressability of the processor, typically 4 GB on a 32-bit CPU (more with physical addressing extensions).
ram
All of the RAM on the system. This may consist of multiple entries.
sysram
System RAM, i.e., memory that has been given to the OS to manage. This may also consist of multiple entries.

Since by convention sysram is the memory that has been given to the OS, this pool is the same as that used by the OS to satisfy anonymous mmap() and malloc() requests.

You can create additional entries, but only in startup, using the as_add() function.