From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 29 03:12:28 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id DAA02375 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 03:12:28 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA02370 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 03:12:26 -0800 Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id DAA04882; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 03:12:05 -0800 From: Julian Elischer Message-Id: <199511291112.DAA04882@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: Memory hole size To: wwong@wiley.csusb.edu (William Wong) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 03:12:04 -0800 (PST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199511291047.CAA10576@wiley.csusb.edu> from "William Wong" at Nov 29, 95 02:47:31 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 907 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk There are two possibilities, and I've seen both.. one allows you to make the normal RAM not cover a region, (say 12-16MB) even though yop have more, so you can stick a frame-buffer card there.. the other puts a hole in the shadow ram that covers the 640K->1MB IO area, so you can have an IO card with shared ram there.. (otherwise you just see your ram and not the ram on the card..) especially bad with ETHERNET CARDS.. (never see the new packets) > > Does anyone know what the memory hole size in the BIOS means and if so, how > it can be used? There is also an accompanying line that prompts for the > start address. I hate when the manuals that come with the motherboards > don't describe anything about the advanced BIOS parameters. > > -- > William T. Wong > Network Analyst, Assistant > Cal State University, San Bernardino > Phone: (909) 880-7281 > email: wwong@wiley.csusb.edu >