Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 10:49:13 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: tony@dell.com (Tony Overfield) Subject: Re: MAXMEM was: Re: 2.1.6 on Compaq Prosignia 500 (2.1.5 worked) Message-ID: <199612150949.KAA10237@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19961214202436.0067ea7c@bugs.us.dell.com> from Tony Overfield at "Dec 14, 96 08:24:46 pm"
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As Tony Overfield wrote: > There are standardized BIOS calls to obtain the correct amount of > memory, even when it exceeds 65 MB. I think the boot loader should > make these BIOS calls and pass the correct information to the kernel. What BIOS calls? My old notebook is probably the oldest machine that somebody would be willing and able to run FreeBSD on (386/16, 5 MB RAM, approx. 1990/91), so i could test its BIOS for the existance of that call. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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