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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???
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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
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