From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Oct 3 13:41:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BE0337B66C for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 13:41:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeppo.feral.com (IDENT:mjacob@zeppo [192.67.166.71]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA29760; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 13:41:15 -0700 Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 13:38:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Wilko Bulte Cc: FreeBSD-alpha mailing list Subject: Re: max memory on Alpha? In-Reply-To: <20001003222814.A2562@freebie.demon.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > ... > > > I have 3 8400s to play with- 2 with 2GB each. > > > > What I can do is to swipe one system's boards and put it in the one running > > FreeBSD.. but time, time time... > > Do you by any chance know of a way to instruct the TLaser SRM to pretend it > has less memory than is physically installed? I don't want to swap boards to > often, the TLaser backplane is a bit delicate. The TLaser backplane is built like a buffalo. It's the KTHA && KTIO cables that are delicate. I don't know what the SRM value might be (if any) to set. It'd probably be easier to try and limit the sizes to the first contiguous 2GB in alpha_init in machdep.c Look- I'll try and check this all out wednesday. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message