From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 24 21:26:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA15939 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 24 Aug 1997 21:26:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA15934 for ; Sun, 24 Aug 1997 21:26:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from word.smith.net.au (lot.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [203.20.121.21]) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA18245 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 13:56:33 +0930 (CST) Received: from word.smith.net.au ([127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA01084; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 12:02:32 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199708250232.MAA01084@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Gary Kendall cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sizing mem > 64MB at boot-time In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 23 Aug 1997 12:43:00 -0400." <199708231643.MAA00831@ccomp.inode.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 12:02:01 +0930 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Any help anyone can give me in sorting out segments and/or operand sizes > in real-mode would be greatly appreciated. Jonathan Lemon (jlemon@freebsd.org) recently announced some code for calling real-mode BIOS functions from the FreeBSD kernel, which should cover everything you want to do here. I haven't had time to follow it through yet, regrettably, but you should definitely coordinate with him. mike