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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, dg@Root.COM, erich@uruk.org
Subject: Re: Memory probe(s) in FreeBSD
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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