Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 01:05:45 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: Stephen Hocking <shocking@prth.pgs.com>, msmith@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using the boot loader to set maximum memory size? Message-ID: <390713D9.28C779DF@newsguy.com> References: <200004261528.XAA12560@bloop.craftncomp.com> <20000426092607.L9754@fw.wintelcom.net>
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Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > * 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. Patches for both /boot/help and loader.8 are accepted, of course. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org dcs@there.is.no.such.thing.as.a.bsdconspiracy.net GPL certainly doesn't meet Janis Joplin's definition of freedom: "Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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