Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 18:45:09 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: spork <spork@super-g.com> Cc: Stefan Molnar <stefan@csudsu.com>, perl <perl@netmug.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD K6 with FreeBSD??? Message-ID: <199805140145.SAA17109@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 May 1998 13:39:50 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980513133803.1826F-100000@super-g.inch.com>
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>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. Jordan kept complaining to me that it wasn't automatic and begged me to fix it, even if the fix was sort of a kludge. So I implemented a simple speculative memory probe. FreeBSD should find the memory automatically now. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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