Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 13:02:25 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: tony@dell.com, witr@rwwa.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't put 512MB ram in box ... Extended memory question. Message-ID: <199704260332.NAA05500@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <1938.861958025@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Apr 25, 97 01:47:05 am"
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Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > A third, perhaps unseemly, possibility, that I haven't seen mentioned > > before, is to make the real-mode BIOS call from the kernel init code > > in the same way that the APM initilization BIOS call is made, by > > temporarily returning the CPU to real-mode after the kernel is loaded. Send us a diff! Please! > If that would allow me to read in initialization values from an > optional file in the root filesystem, just as the kernel is read in, > at the point where userconfig() is called in machdep.c, well, I'd vote > for it with all flags waving. The "userconfig save" feature broke The readfile() stuff in the new bootblocks could read the file in just after the kernel; would that be good enough? We could stack userconfig commands into that... -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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