From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 19 5:28: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from lor.watermarkgroup.com (lor.watermarkgroup.com [207.202.73.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10A5F14EA6 for ; Wed, 19 May 1999 05:28:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luoqi@watermarkgroup.com) Received: (from luoqi@localhost) by lor.watermarkgroup.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA11701; Wed, 19 May 1999 08:27:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from luoqi) Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 08:27:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Luoqi Chen Message-Id: <199905191227.IAA11701@lor.watermarkgroup.com> To: jerry.alexandratos@perspectives.net, jlemon@americantv.com Subject: Re: FBSDBOOT.EXE Cc: ctapang@easystreet.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Jonathan Lemon says: > : > : Not true. VM86 is also required to support VESA. Also, it is used > : for reliable memory detection (which is why I want to make it mandatory). > : No more "My Stinkpad only detected 64M, what do I do now??!" questions. > > Actually, even with VM86, the kernel still doesn't correctly detect the > StinkPad's memory. > > --Jerry > > name: Jerry Alexandratos || Open-Source software isn't a > phone: 302.521.1018 || matter of life or death... > email: jalexand@perspectives.net || ...It's much more important > || than that! It just occurred to me that we might be able to use initial MTRR settings by BIOS for memory detection (P6 and above, of course). Don't know how reliable that is. -lq To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message