Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 08:39:51 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: spork <spork@super-g.com>, Stefan Molnar <stefan@csudsu.com> Cc: perl <perl@netmug.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD K6 with FreeBSD??? Message-ID: <19980514083951.F3535@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980513133803.1826F-100000@super-g.inch.com>; from spork on Wed, May 13, 1998 at 01:39:50PM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980513065011.314M-100000@c657209-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980513133803.1826F-100000@super-g.inch.com>
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On Wed, 13 May 1998 at 13:39:50 -0400, spork wrote: > >> If I remember correctly the 64 limit is in the generic. But >> if you compile in I think it is called MAXRAMSIZE or something >> like that. It should be in the LINT. With the ram size in >> question you should be fine. > > I don't know when it happened, but in the 2.2-stable of about a month ago, > I see this on bootup of a machine with 128M and no "MAXMEM" line in the > kernel config: > > CPU: Pentium (133.27-MHz 586-class CPU) > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x52c Stepping=12 > Features=0x1bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8> > real memory = 134217728 (131072K bytes) > avail memory = 129245184 (126216K bytes) > > So I guess this is a new feature... Very nice. Correct. They fixed the 64MB BIOS limit problems some time ago. They're correct in 2.2.6, now that I come to think of it (I installed a GENERIC 2.2.6 kernel on the new machine with 160 MB of memory, and it finds it all and works fine). Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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