From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jul 18 09:24:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA29755 for current-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 09:24:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA29747; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 09:24:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rover.village.org (8.7.5/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA00775; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 10:22:59 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199607181622.KAA00775@rover.village.org> To: Nate Williams Subject: Re: Cause of APM_DSVALUE_BUG found (but not completely fixed yet) Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org, davidg@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 15 Jul 1996 23:57:46 MDT Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 10:22:58 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk : + biosbasemem = bootinfo.bi_basemem; : + biosextmem = bootinfo.bi_extmem; Hmmm. The linux folks are running into machines that this would be bad for. Evidentally, they claim, a nontrivial number of machines will cap the returned value at 16M of memory. It might be best to do this as an option. Warner