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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/acpica acpi_pcib_acpi.c
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John Baldwin wrote:
> On Sunday 04 July 2004 12:23 pm, Warner Losh wrote:
> 
>>imp         2004-07-04 16:23:25 UTC
>>
>>  FreeBSD src repository
>>
>>  Modified files:
>>    sys/dev/acpica       acpi_pcib_acpi.c
>>  Log:
>>  Make the default memory range in the top 2GB of ram in the hopes that
>>  this more accurately reflects what the underlying hardware of most
>>  acpi machines that don't have children pci busses.
>>
>>  We still need a better way to get this information from acpi/hardware.
> 
> 
> s/better/ and AFAIK ACPI doesn't provide such information. :(  Even if they 
> did it'd probably be as screwed up as the _BBN fiasco.

Yeah, ACPI doesn't have it.  I'm guessing the hw is the only way to get 
this info.

-- 
-Nate