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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: >64MB
In-Reply-To: <199711050917.EAA07537@trinity.mit.edu> from "Charles M. Hannum" at "Nov 5, 97 04:17:42 am"
To: mycroft@mit.edu (Charles M. Hannum)
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Charles M. Hannum said:
> 
> FWIW, the new boot code in NetBSD actually does use the extended BIOS
> calls to find more memory (and also reads gzipped kernels).  This is
> handy on my development machine with 256MB.  B-)
> 
> (So, now you not only know it can be done, but you know where to find
> an example...)
> 
I don't do boot code (that is other's territory), but I have wondered
why the "standard" extended BIOS calls weren't used in FreeBSD also.

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John
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