From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Dec 5 15:27:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9452437B419 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 15:27:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fB5NQn308229; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 00:26:49 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 00:26:49 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: "Koster, K.J." , "'freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: as2100 saga continues: memory trouble? *sigh* Message-ID: <20011206002649.B8067@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FDA180@l04.research.kpn.com> <15374.39269.403872.837182@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15374.39269.403872.837182@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 05:02:13PM -0500 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 05:02:13PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Koster, K.J. writes: > > > > Suppose that I know the bad memory range, any way of telling FreeBSD not to > > use it? Perhaps abuse the option ROM device to claim that memory range for > > itself? > > I have another idea.. install from Wilko's mininst CDROM. Alpha now > (after 4.4-RELEASE) has support for setting hw.physmem to limit the > amount of memory freebsd uses (settable from the boot loader). > > Try setting it to 32M & see if you make it through the install. > If 32M are bad, the odds are good they're not in the 32MB you're going > to use.. Interesting idea.. I don't think SRM reports at which phys address the bad pages are located. Wilko -- | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message