Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 09:05:41 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: m_tanaka@pa.yokogawa.co.jp (Mihoko Tanaka) Subject: Re: Compaq 16MB limit... Message-ID: <199602010805.JAA25835@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <9602010134.AA10287@cabbage.pa.yokogawa.co.jp> from "Mihoko Tanaka" at Feb 1, 96 10:34:49 am
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As Mihoko Tanaka wrote: > > >>There is no documented API to return the amount of RAM in a machine > >>other than CMOS. There is no BIOS routine that can be used by the > >>boot blocks to overcome this limit, nor does the POST place the results > >>of its test or expose a ROM routine for sizing memory. > > I asked a engineer of COMPAQ about it last month. > He said that we can use the following BIOS call for getting the > amount of RAM in a machine. > > ------------------------ cut cut cut --------------------------------- > INT 15h AX=E801h ---- GET SUPER EXTENDED MEMORY INFORMATION He's apparently kidding. :-/ He tells you to overcome a Compaq bogosity by yet another Compaq bogosity. Of course, for Compaq, the world is okay. There's nothing else than Compaqs around, certainly... -- 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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