From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 17 11:16: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from octopus.originative (originat.demon.co.uk [158.152.220.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3308914C4B for ; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 11:15:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paul@originative.co.uk) Received: by octopus with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) id <2RSVNTNS>; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 19:11:44 +0100 Message-ID: From: paul@originative.co.uk To: robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: lnc0: broke for us between 3.1 and 4.0? Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 19:11:44 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Watson [mailto:robert@cyrus.watson.org] > Sent: 17 April 1999 01:16 > To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org > Subject: lnc0: broke for us between 3.1 and 4.0? > > > > We upgraded a crash machine from 3.1-RELEASE to 4.0-CURRENT from just > before the EGCS switch was pulled. The machine is a Pentium 166 MMX > overdrive. Prior to the upgrade, it correctly probed the > Kensington KNE > 2100 (something like that) with the lnc driver as being at > 0x300 irq 5 > drq 6. > > The working 3.1-RELEASE GENERIC w/a change in the config > editor probe went > like: > > lnc0 at 0x300-0x317 irq 5 drq 6 on isa > lnc0: PCnet-ISA address 00:c0:f0:00:81:f4 > > After upgrading to -current, the probe failed as follows > (when config was > used on the GENERIC quote): > > lnc0 at 0x300-0x317 irq 5 drq 6 on isa > lnc0: Memory allocated above 16Mb limit It looks like the change to allocate memory from the top rather than the bottom has broken it since on my box, at least, it's getting memory from the end of physical memory now whereas it never used to. Can someone remind what exactly that change was? Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message