Date: Tue, 11 Jul 95 12:09:51 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: davidg@Root.COM Cc: a00776@giant.mindlink.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.0.5 64 meg RAM limit? Message-ID: <9507111809.AA17705@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199507110152.SAA02421@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Jul 10, 95 06:52:24 pm
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> In the future FreeBSD will get the information in a different way (using > special BIOS calls at boot time), but there isn't sufficient space in the boot > blocks to do this and thus it first requires a 3 stage boot. Or the ability to make BIOS calls from protected mode, a more general cross-architecture (less PC-centric) mechanism, if there is any desire at all to minimize the cross-platform portability dependencies in the boot code and effectively reduce the amount of assembly code involved in what is, effectively, run-once code. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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