Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 10:52:02 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Stephen Hocking <shocking@prth.pgs.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using the boot loader to set maximum memory size? Message-ID: <20000426105201.M9754@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <200004261708.KAA03066@mass.cdrom.com>; from msmith@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 10:08:01AM -0700 References: <20000426092607.L9754@fw.wintelcom.net> <200004261708.KAA03066@mass.cdrom.com>
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* Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> [000426 10:46] wrote: > > * Stephen Hocking <shocking@prth.pgs.com> [000426 09:23] wrote: > > > Is there any chance of extending the loader so that it can set the memory > > > size, rather than hard coding it into the kernel config file? This would be > > > quite useful for testing things which like a large amount of memory set aside > > > exclusively for hardware's use (I'm thinking of Utah-GLX's DMA buffers for > > > G400 cards here). > > > > Use the undocumented hw.physmem variable in the loader. > > There isn't an "undocumented hw.physmem" variable, there's only a > "documented hw.physmem" variable. Ah, it's in loader.help, but not the manpage, I'll patch it asap. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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