Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 20:27:05 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal: Define MAXMEM in GENERIC Message-ID: <19990317202705.X25217@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <199903171641.JAA10150@mt.sri.com>; from Nate Williams on Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 09:41:09AM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9903141246550.17166-100000@gateway.cybernet.com> <12196.921649234@zippy.cdrom.com> <199903171641.JAA10150@mt.sri.com>
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On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 09:41:09AM -0700, a little birdie told me
that Nate Williams remarked
>
> I would think a Forth hacker could do this, given that the flags to the
> npx device can be used to specify the amount of memory in the system.
> (Although, I could find it documented anywhere obvious when I went
> looking for it in the man pages.)
>
> /sys/i386/isa/npx.c:
> revision 1.32
> date: 1996/11/11 20:39:03; author: bde; state: Exp; lines: +47 -13
> ...
> Added a boot-time way to set the memory size (iosiz in config, iosize in
> userconfig for npx0).
> ...
Note that the one time I tried this (admittedly, way back in 2.1.{5|6}
days) it didn't work.
That was on a Compaq (doncha LOVE 'em? ;) with that weird Compaq
motherboard/chipset or something which meant that without an explicit
MAXMEM, it wouldn't detect over 16 meg, and I didn't have the space to
build a kernel.
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