Date: Sat, 15 Apr 95 1:30:56 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, cmf@ins.infonet.net, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Interesting (and odd) effect in -current Message-ID: <9504150730.AA01758@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199504150051.RAA18822@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Apr 14, 95 05:51:13 pm
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> > Rod, > > Wouldn't it be a good idea in general if we zero all of the RAM in locore.s > (except the messagebuffer that is) ? > > That way we will have flushed all the caches, and reset all parity bits... This would suck. 1) No DOSEM because no low core. 2) No VM86 because no low core. 3) No memory size from POST routine instead of CMOS to fix Dell and Compaq problems because ...no low core. If you *MUST* do it, at least consider changing 0xdeadbeef to something original like 0xc0edbabe or 0xba5eba11. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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