Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 23:57:38 -0600 From: Tony Overfield <tony@dell.com> To: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposal: Define MAXMEM in GENERIC Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990314235738.03ba2a10@bugs.us.dell.com> In-Reply-To: <199903141920.NAA16212@free.pcs> References: <local.mail.freebsd-hackers/3.0.6.32.19990314123925.039187c0@bugs.us.dell.com> <local.mail.freebsd-hackers/Your message of "Mon, 15 Mar 199901:54:46 %2B0900."<local.mail.freebsd-hackers/36EBE9D6.7E6320FE@newsguy.com> <local.mail.freebsd-hackers/63209.921431112@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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At 01:20 PM 3/14/99 -0600, Jonathan Lemon wrote: >>p.s. FreeBSD seems to prefer E801h over E820h. I'd like to see it >> the other way around, since you could gain almost 64 KB of >> extra memory in some cases. > >Not true, if you're referring to the VM86 memory probe. It tries >INT 15h, AX=E820, then INT 15h, AX=E801, then INT 15h, AX=88, in >that order. Sorry about that. I have all three of the BIOS functions in my box, but I still see this: BIOS basemem: 639K, extmem: 64512K (from 0xe801 call) so I made an assumption. I did say it *seems* to prefer E801h. Tony To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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