From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 25 20:34:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA01904 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 20:34:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA01897 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 20:34:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id NAA05500; Sat, 26 Apr 1997 13:02:25 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199704260332.NAA05500@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Can't put 512MB ram in box ... Extended memory question. In-Reply-To: <1938.861958025@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Apr 25, 97 01:47:05 am" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 13:02:25 +0930 (CST) Cc: tony@dell.com, witr@rwwa.com, hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 [[