Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 11:38:42 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, tony@dell.com, hackers@freebsd.org, witr@rwwa.com Subject: Re: Can't put 512MB ram in box ... Extended memory question. Message-ID: <E0wKoxG-0003x8-00@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 25 Apr 1997 03:36:38 PDT." <6162.861964598@time.cdrom.com> References: <6162.861964598@time.cdrom.com>
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In message <6162.861964598@time.cdrom.com> "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: : Well, the reading part sounds like it's pretty straight-forward, but : something in userconfig is going to have to keep track of everything : it changes so that this can be queried and saved through some API. : I'm willing to try and make that bit work myself if we can somehow : hook userconfig variables into your /boot.config file mechanism. We : could also get rid of the "info" area kludge after the boot blocks, : while we're at it. If this sounds like I think it sounds, I'd say go for it. I don't know how many times I've been burned by the following sequence: boot -c <twiddle stuff> rebuild kernel boot and none of my twiddles were preserved. If this information were outside of the kernel, I'd be a lot happier. Warner
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