From owner-freebsd-qa Mon Jan 21 21:21:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C79C37B402; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 21:21:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org ([12.233.149.189]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020122052104.GGFM3578.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@bmah.dyndns.org>; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 05:21:04 +0000 Received: (from bmah@localhost) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0M5L4C66088; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 21:21:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200201220521.g0M5L4C66088@bmah.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Doug White Cc: "Bruce A. Mah" , freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Release documentation for 4.5-RELEASE In-reply-to: <20020121165521.M53531-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> References: <20020121165521.M53531-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> Comments: In-reply-to Doug White message dated "Mon, 21 Jan 2002 17:07:11 -0800." From: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG (Bruce A. Mah) Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 21:21:04 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message