From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 15 13:05:32 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA00269 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 15 Dec 1996 13:05:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id NAA00262 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 1996 13:05:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA23851; Sun, 15 Dec 1996 13:41:13 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199612152041.NAA23851@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: MAXMEM was: Re: 2.1.6 on Compaq Prosignia 500 (2.1.5 worked) To: tony@dell.com (Tony Overfield) Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 13:41:13 -0700 (MST) Cc: eivind@dimaga.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19961214202436.0067ea7c@bugs.us.dell.com> from "Tony Overfield" at Dec 14, 96 08:24:46 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > There are standardized BIOS calls to obtain the correct amount of > memory, even when it exceeds 65 MB. I think the boot loader should > make these BIOS calls and pass the correct information to the kernel. Go ahead and add it. Make sure the boot code doesn't grow over the 8k limit imposed on it by the fact that there isn't any more space between the start of the BSD area on the disk and the disklabel on everyone's hardrives for several years now... Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.