Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 19:14:28 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: davidg@Root.COM Cc: phk@ref.tfs.com, cmf@ins.infonet.net, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Interesting (and odd) effect in -current Message-ID: <199504150214.TAA02308@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199504150204.TAA00579@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Apr 14, 95 07:04:43 pm
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> > >But I have digressed, if the BIOS didn't manage to get this write at > >power on, you would get NMI interrupts no matter what OS you ran. I > >don't see a reason to add code to FreeBSD that really belongs in the > >BIOS in the off chance that some really rare broken motherboard could > >then work. > > I agree, but I think clearing memory has other merits. Yes, setting it to 0xDeadBeef is a very good idea, that way you can find out some times when you pick up a wild pointer by the value in it :-). -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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