Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 09:26:08 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Stephen Hocking <shocking@prth.pgs.com> Cc: msmith@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using the boot loader to set maximum memory size? Message-ID: <20000426092607.L9754@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <200004261528.XAA12560@bloop.craftncomp.com>; from shocking@prth.pgs.com on Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 11:28:48PM %2B0800 References: <200004261528.XAA12560@bloop.craftncomp.com>
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* Stephen Hocking <shocking@prth.pgs.com> [000426 09:23] wrote: > 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). Use the undocumented hw.physmem variable in the loader. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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