Date: Sat, 27 May 1995 17:38:28 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> Cc: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu Subject: Re: LINT additions Message-ID: <199505280038.RAA00434@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 May 95 17:21:45 PDT." <199505280021.RAA06523@ref.tfs.com>
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>in the OSF/1-386 code, I do the memeory probe WAAAYYYY early.. >(while the bios can still run actually), while we are still running >on the boot-codes segment descriptors etc.. >and certainly before we are in paging mode.. >This tests if the BIOS says we have > 63MB ram >MASK lops off the top bits of the address (because we are still running >away from our 'linked' address. > >It's not great, but it got my machines up and going We have code that properly asks the BIOS for the size, but haven't put it in yet because there isn't room in the bootblocks. -DG
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