Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 12:11:51 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, dg@Root.COM, erich@uruk.org Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory probe(s) in FreeBSD Message-ID: <199611180111.MAA01279@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Hmm... this is starting to get complicated. I don't really want to fuss >with the old-style BSD booting interface much because it needs a lot of >fixing and simply can't be straightforwardly extended to include all the >new things one might want to do. Complicated for us but not for you :-). If we keep supporting all the interfaces except the very old (pre-2.0) ones, then you can just use the current one to pass the memory sizes etc. in case the kernel doesn't support the text interface. Bruce
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