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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

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