From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 14 17:14:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freja.webgiro.com (10.0.29.209.212.in-addr.arpa [212.209.29.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 606C3155C8 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 17:14:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: by freja.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id EE73618C3; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 02:14:45 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freja.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E45CC4992; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 02:14:45 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 02:14:44 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: Mike Smith Cc: Sheldon Hearn , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal: Define MAXMEM in GENERIC In-Reply-To: <199903141952.LAA08097@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 // 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