Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 09:19:07 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-current users), freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cause of APM_DSVALUE_BUG found (but not completely fixed yet) Message-ID: <199607161519.JAA24381@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199607160839.KAA22837@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <199607160557.XAA22922@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199607160839.KAA22837@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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> > However, our bootblocks read the BIOS information after ever everything > > else has run, and they provide the (correct!) amount of base and > > extended memory to the kernel. Currently, the kernel prints out a > > warning message if the RTC value and the bootblock value doesn't match, > > but it still uses the RTC value. > > Alas, there are other system ``niceties'' that also subtract some > amount from the BIOS basemem, like hard disk parameter tables for the > custom-selectable hard disk type. (BIOS vendors should really use the > BIOS stack for this, but only AMI seems to offer this as an option.) > I'm not sure whether we are very interested in preserving this > information. It certainly couldn't hurt to preserve this and... > Anyway, i don't think the wasted at most one page would hurt very > much. *grin* Nate
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