From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 26 8:29:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from bilby.prth.tensor.pgs.com (bilby.prth.tensor.pgs.com [157.147.232.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C16AD37B895; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 08:29:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shocking@prth.pgs.com) Received: from bandicoot.prth.tensor.pgs.com (bandicoot.prth.tensor.pgs.com [157.147.224.1]) by bilby.prth.tensor.pgs.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA08781; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 23:27:16 +0800 (WST) Received: from bleep.craftncomp.com (dialin20 [157.147.225.220]) by bandicoot.prth.tensor.pgs.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA20787; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 23:29:30 +0800 (WST) Received: from bloop.craftncomp.com (bloop.prth.tensor.pgs.com [202.12.111.1]) by bleep.craftncomp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA01526; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 23:28:53 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from shocking@prth.pgs.com) Received: from bloop.craftncomp.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bloop.craftncomp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA12560; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 23:28:48 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from shocking@bloop.craftncomp.com) Message-Id: <200004261528.XAA12560@bloop.craftncomp.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: msmith@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Using the boot loader to set maximum memory size? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 23:28:48 +0800 From: Stephen Hocking Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is there any chance of extending the loader so that it can set the memory size, rather than hard coding it into the kernel config file? This would be quite useful for testing things which like a large amount of memory set aside exclusively for hardware's use (I'm thinking of Utah-GLX's DMA buffers for G400 cards here). Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message