From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 16 16:55:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA27997 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 16:55:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (garbanzo@korea-173.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.225.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA27992 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 16:55:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA03060 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 16:56:34 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 16:56:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 machdep.c In-Reply-To: <199709161424.QAA27601@bitbox.follo.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Eivind Eklund wrote: > > > > davidg 1997/09/16 03:45:11 PDT > > > > Modified files: (Branch: RELENG_2_2) > > sys/i386/i386 machdep.c > > Log: > > Bring in changes from revs 1.262 & 1.263: speculative memory probe for > > machines with >64MB of RAM. > > This still won't work on Compaqs and Dells - they report 16MB in the > RTC memory, and expect you to use the (EISA?) BIOS to find the rest. > (Not that I have a good solution for this, just FYI) > > Eivind. Speaking of which, I noticed an option for OS/2 >64 MB DRAM in my BIOS setup (Award something or other). Since I only have 64 mb right now I doubt it would do me much good, but does anyone know what enabling that with >64mb ram would do? - alex