From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 16 13:27:33 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA28091 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 13:27:33 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA28085 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 13:27:31 -0800 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id NAA12697; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 13:27:05 -0800 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199503162127.NAA12697@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: installing on a thinkpad 750 To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 13:27:05 -0800 (PST) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <9503162103.AA24601@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Mar 16, 95 02:03:56 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 791 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > >> The problem may be that the APM BIOS uses memory that it has reserved > > >> below 640K. FreeBSD doesn't honor BIOS reserved memory. > > > > >This theory doesn't make sense. The problem with it is that the BIOS > > >is not accessed after BSD boots, and BSD doesn't load into the BIOS > > >reserved area while the boot blocks are running before that. > > > > The APM BIOS is accessed whenever BSD is idle. > > How? Who makes the BIOS call, and what is "idle"? I actually don't > think the BIOS is used when running in protected mode. In the ones Read the APM spec, see our kernels #ifdef APM... -- Poul-Henning Kamp -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'