Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 02:14:44 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@iafrica.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal: Define MAXMEM in GENERIC Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903150213080.1677-100000@freja.webgiro.com> In-Reply-To: <199903141952.LAA08097@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > We'd probably be better off using VM86 and the BIOS memory probe code, > which will give us the best of both worlds. > > The code's been in the system for a long time now, and completely > obsoletes the (bogus from day 1) speculative probe. I wonder if it's possible to add a MAXMEM environment variable in bootloader... then those who know better could set it to the real value. Andrzej Bialecki // <abial@webgiro.com> WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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