Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 21:21:04 -0800 From: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG (Bruce A. Mah) To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Release documentation for 4.5-RELEASE Message-ID: <200201220521.g0M5L4C66088@bmah.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20020121165521.M53531-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> References: <20020121165521.M53531-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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If memory serves me right, Doug White wrote:
> The description of MAXMEM/hw.physmem implies that MAXMEM is a new option.
> It's been around since the 2.X days :-)
Arrrgh. This item started out as an alpha-only release note, and I
somehow saw somewhere that MAXMEM existed on the i386, then inferred
(wrongly) that the entire MAXMEM feature was new.
> Also hw.physmem should be
> described as a loader tunable, not an environment variable (yeah, it's a
> kernel environment variable, I know). Unless I'm misunderstading the
> difference between loader tunables and kenv variables.
I'm going to blame that on dfr:
dfr 2001/10/04 06:09:36 PDT
Modified files: (Branch: RELENG_4)
sys/alpha/alpha machdep.c
sys/conf options.alpha
Log:
MFC: add support for MAXMEM option and hw.physmem environment variable.
Revision Changes Path
1.68.2.14 +56 -1 src/sys/alpha/alpha/machdep.c
1.19.2.3 +3 -1 src/sys/conf/options.alpha
But I'll also fix it.
> I'll let you know if I find any more nits to pick :)
Feel free...thanks!
Bruce.
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