From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 26 17:39:46 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9442337B405 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 17:39:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from hughes-fe02.direcway.com (hughes-fe02.direcway.com [66.82.20.92]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79D1A43F1E for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 17:39:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fpicard@bellsouth.net) Received: from yochlol ([66.82.32.1]) by hughes-fe02.direcway.com (InterMail vK.4.04.00.00 201-232-137 license dcc4e84cb8fc01ca8f8654c982ec8526) with ESMTP id <20030127013417.GSNQ19893.hughes-fe02@yochlol>; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 20:34:17 -0500 Received: from 192.168.0.210 by yochlol ([192.168.0.1] running VPOP3) with ESMTP; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 20:39:38 -0500 Subject: Re: Options MAXMEM added to GENERIC kernel config causes kernel panic in -current From: Eric Jones Reply-To: fpicard@bellsouth.net To: walt Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3E34787F.7020201@hotmail.com> References: <3E34787F.7020201@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1043631577.15573.11.camel@griffin.webcoven.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.1 Date: 26 Jan 2003 20:39:38 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server: VPOP3 V1.5.0d - Registered Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 19:08, walt wrote: > Steve Kargl wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 05:08:40PM -0500, Eric Jones wrote: > > >>Is there any reason, on newer motherboards, to need the MAXMEM option? > > > I don't know. I've always used MAXMEM. Guess it's > > time to remove it from my kernel config file. > > FWIW, I've been using FBSD -stable and -current for about 3 years > on five different machines and I've never used MAXMEM. Never had > any problems recognizing memory, either -- guess I've been luckier > than some. I've been using FBSD since 4.0 was -CURRENT, I've been lucky enough never to have been bitten by anything that a CVSUP couldn't fix. Except the MAXMEM thing on my old MB and the ACPI thing on the new. All fixed now :) -- Eric Jones To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message