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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

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