From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 27 17:38:29 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA13813 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 27 May 1995 17:38:29 -0700 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA13807 for ; Sat, 27 May 1995 17:38:27 -0700 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin.Root.COM [198.145.90.18]) by Root.COM (8.6.8/8.6.5) with ESMTP id RAA02451; Sat, 27 May 1995 17:41:24 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with SMTP id RAA00434; Sat, 27 May 1995 17:38:30 -0700 Message-Id: <199505280038.RAA00434@corbin.Root.COM> To: Julian Elischer cc: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu Subject: Re: LINT additions In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 27 May 95 17:21:45 PDT." <199505280021.RAA06523@ref.tfs.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Sat, 27 May 1995 17:38:28 -0700 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >in the OSF/1-386 code, I do the memeory probe WAAAYYYY early.. >(while the bios can still run actually), while we are still running >on the boot-codes segment descriptors etc.. >and certainly before we are in paging mode.. >This tests if the BIOS says we have > 63MB ram >MASK lops off the top bits of the address (because we are still running >away from our 'linked' address. > >It's not great, but it got my machines up and going We have code that properly asks the BIOS for the size, but haven't put it in yet because there isn't room in the bootblocks. -DG