Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 10:08:01 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: Stephen Hocking <shocking@prth.pgs.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using the boot loader to set maximum memory size? Message-ID: <200004261708.KAA03066@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Apr 2000 09:26:08 PDT." <20000426092607.L9754@fw.wintelcom.net>
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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. There isn't an "undocumented hw.physmem" variable, there's only a "documented hw.physmem" variable. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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