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From: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
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Subject: Re: AMD K6 with FreeBSD???
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On Wed, 13 May 1998, perl wrote:


> work fine with FreeBSD.  I see some stuff in the LINT kernel about Cyrix
> chips but nothing about AMD.

There's no problem with AMD chips as far as I know. I tested 2.2.2-R. with
a K6/200 some month ago.

> Someone mentioned something about a 64MB RAM limit.  Is this true?

Automatic recognition during boot is limited to 64M. If you've more,
compile the kernel with:

options MAXMEM=<#K>

E.g.

options MAXMEM=131072

for 128 MB of memory.

Konrad Heuer

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