From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 17 18:27:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FC691529A for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 18:27:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: (from fullermd@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA12493; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 20:27:06 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 20:27:05 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Nate Williams Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal: Define MAXMEM in GENERIC Message-ID: <19990317202705.X25217@futuresouth.com> References: <12196.921649234@zippy.cdrom.com> <199903171641.JAA10150@mt.sri.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <199903171641.JAA10150@mt.sri.com>; from Nate Williams on Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 09:41:09AM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ Trim, trim, trim on the CC's] 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. --- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | Matthew Fuller http://www.over-yonder.net/ | * fullermd@futuresouth.com fullermd@over-yonder.net * | UNIX Systems Administrator Specializing in FreeBSD | * FutureSouth Communications ISPHelp ISP Consulting * | "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, | * is because I haven't figured out how to light the * | middle yet" | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message