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Subject: Re: AMD K6 with FreeBSD??? 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 18:45:09 -0700
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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

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