From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 6 12:26: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80F7537B401 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 12:26:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from rootlabs.com (root.org [67.118.192.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E80B543E6E for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 12:25:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@rootlabs.com) Received: (qmail 15566 invoked by uid 1000); 6 Nov 2002 20:26:00 -0000 Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 12:26:00 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Lawson To: Terry Lambert Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: max phy mem known working with FreeBSD 4.x In-Reply-To: <3DC8C213.DFCB560B@mindspring.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > As far as PCI goes (or anything they publish, for that matter), the > MindShare books are very, very good. But for the particular question > of how much physical address space is eaten, you really have to go to > the chipset spec. sheets to get the right answer these days. 8-(. The PCI book is good. The others less so. Bottom of the barrel is "plug and play arch" -- terrible. Amazon's reviews are pretty close to reality IMO. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message