Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 21:00:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> To: Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com> Cc: jerry.alexandratos@perspectives.net, jlemon@americantv.com, ctapang@easystreet.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FBSDBOOT.EXE Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905192059480.76189-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <199905191227.IAA11701@lor.watermarkgroup.com>
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On Wed, 19 May 1999, Luoqi Chen wrote:
> > Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> says:
> > :
> > : Not true. VM86 is also required to support VESA. Also, it is used
> > : for reliable memory detection (which is why I want to make it mandatory).
> > : No more "My Stinkpad only detected 64M, what do I do now??!" questions.
> >
> > Actually, even with VM86, the kernel still doesn't correctly detect the
> > StinkPad's memory.
> >
> > --Jerry
> >
> > name: Jerry Alexandratos || Open-Source software isn't a
> > phone: 302.521.1018 || matter of life or death...
> > email: jalexand@perspectives.net || ...It's much more important
> > || than that!
>
> It just occurred to me that we might be able to use initial MTRR settings
> by BIOS for memory detection (P6 and above, of course). Don't know how
> reliable that is.
And K6-family processors with newer BIOSes are usually write allocate-enabled
and that can be used too.
>
> -lq
>
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