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Date:      Tue, 01 Jun 1999 20:41:19 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>
Cc:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 machdep.c 
Message-ID:  <20894.928262479@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Jun 1999 13:33:17 CDT." <19990601133317.55152@right.PCS> 

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In message <19990601133317.55152@right.PCS>, Jonathan Lemon writes:
>On Jun 06, 1999 at 08:30:24PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, 01 Jun 1999 11:25:30 MST, Jonathan Lemon wrote:
>> 
>> >   Null commit; note that there is a new memory sizing routine that uses
>> >   the BIOS calls to determine the memory configuration.  This should fix
>> >   problems with >64M for good.
>> 
>> Does this mean MAXMEM can go away?
>
>Yes, but I've left it in on purpose so that you can configure the
>system so that it uses less memory than what is actually installed.
>This is useful in some cases (e.g.: testing code under low memory
>conditions).

Indeed, if nothing else it should be retained for just that.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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