From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 26 19:17:59 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 09A3C37B401 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 19:17:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C45A43F5B for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 19:17:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) id h0R3Hii4045820; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 21:17:44 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 21:17:44 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Eric Jones Cc: Terry Lambert , walt , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Options MAXMEM added to GENERIC kernel config causes kernel panicin -current Message-ID: <20030127031743.GN6137@dan.emsphone.com> References: <3E34787F.7020201@hotmail.com> <3E34917A.E8C421E5@mindspring.com> <1043636098.15573.17.camel@griffin.webcoven.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1043636098.15573.17.camel@griffin.webcoven.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i 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 In the last episode (Jan 26), Eric Jones said: > For uses such as testing I can understand, but I don't see a use under > normal conditions, at least on newer systems. I haven't dug into the > source yet today, but there must be a reason why ACPI doesn't play nice > on certain systems when MAXMEM is specified. Compaq systems as recent at 2000 required MAXMEM to detect memory above 64k, I believe. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message