Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 18:21:38 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@iafrica.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Proposal: Define MAXMEM in GENERIC Message-ID: <35437.921428498@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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Hi folks,
The originator of PR i386/9755 (which related to a 3.0-RELEASE install
failure) has made a valid point.
We know that some people with >64MB RAM are going to have trouble with
the speculative memory probe while installing FreeBSD with the GENERIC
(here read any release) kernel. So why don't we add to GENERIC the
following line?
options "MAXMEM=(64*1024)"
The major argument that comes to mind immediately is that people are
going to end up running sub-optimal servers out-of-the-box. However, the
change is supported by the following mindset:
Gain:
Make things easier for people with broken hardware.
Cost:
Annoy the people who have large memory configurations and who
don't build custom kernels.
I'm of the opinion that we're talking about a number of annoyed people
so small that the gain is justified.
Ciao,
Sheldon.
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