Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 10:22:30 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ISA Hole - Memory Problem Message-ID: <199605081722.KAA00341@Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 May 1996 13:17:00 EDT." <199605081717.NAA29184@etinc.com>
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>If you could point me at the right modules/routines I'd like to take a look >at it. >The 15-16Meg region is a fairly common option in many motherboard (I think >its generally called the "Compaq Hole") and it makes life a lot easier if >you have >a bunch of shared-memory cards in the same box....particularly if you want to >run X and can't use A0000. Look in machdep.c in middle of the routine init386(). You'll find the memory sizer there. You'll need to mess with the phys_avail array so that a hole is created. phys_avail is an array of start-end ranges of good memory. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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