From owner-cvs-sys Tue Sep 16 07:56:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA28350 for cvs-sys-outgoing; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 07:56:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id HAA28336; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 07:56:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id PAA05480; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 15:36:02 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199709161336.PAA05480@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 machdep.c To: perhaps@yes.no (Eivind Eklund) Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 15:36:02 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: davidg@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199709161424.QAA27601@bitbox.follo.net> from "Eivind Eklund" at Sep 16, 97 04:24:09 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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) can we possibly put some option in USERCONFIG to override any compiled-in option. If someone writes such a procedure, can it be made table driven so that it can be used for other parameters as well. Cheers Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________