Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 16:56:27 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Cc: terry@lambert.org, gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org, phk@critter.tfs.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X for install Message-ID: <199601042356.QAA00715@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199601042030.VAA01717@yedi.iaf.nl> from "Wilko Bulte" at Jan 4, 96 09:30:18 pm
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> > The INT 15 EISA problem is annoying, but I think you can use signature > > tagging to do memory size probing (the reason you need the EISA BIOS > > is that the per slot memory is not necessarily a fixed range and can > > vary from box to box, though most have pretty much standardized). > > In our (=at a former 'work') most of the EISA mainboards only survive > calling the EISA INT from things like DOS. The 32 bit equivalent in > the BIOS most of the times simply crashed the Unix. I lost the details > but I think counting on this to work is optimistic > > BTW we where using this to 'autoconfig' a ATT V.3 based system. You > still had to do a kernel link but it was based on the info in the EISA > config NVRAM. The point is to bypass the BIOS. The only non-computable information is the size of the per slot CMOS area. That's what I meant. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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