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! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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