From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 29 10:30:30 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA11870 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 10:30:30 -0800 Received: from crh.cl.msu.edu (crh.cl.msu.edu [35.8.1.24]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA11864 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 10:30:27 -0800 Received: (from henrich@localhost) by crh.cl.msu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA04595; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 13:30:35 -0500 Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 13:30:35 -0500 From: Charles Henrich Message-Id: <199510291830.NAA04595@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LINT addition please Newsgroups: lists.freebsd.hackers References: <46v6l7$10ns@msunews.cl.msu.edu> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #3 (NOV) Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In lists.freebsd.hackers you write: >># MAXMEM Specified the maximum amount of ram in the system in kilobytes. Only >># use this if your BIOS is broken (I.e. Compaq's). You can specify as >Compaq's BIOS support isn't broken. FreeBSD's BIOS support is broken and >fails on recalcitrant machines with < 64M and on all machines with >= 64M. Point taken, we still should have a blurb in LINT about MAXMEM. -Crh -- Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu http://rs560.msu.edu/~henrich/