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Date:      Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:00:55 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/boot2 Makefile boot2.c
Message-ID:  <20021218125721.Q22938-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021217231213.GB44717@HAL9000.homeunix.com>

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On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, David Schultz wrote:

> Thus spake Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.ORG>:
> > imp         2002/12/17 13:10:35 PST
> >
> >   Modified files:
> >     sys/boot/i386/boot2  Makefile boot2.c
> >   Log:
> >   Make both UFS1 and UFS2 fit on the same boot blocks.  These are a
> >   subset of Peter's patchs that are believed to be safe.
> [...]
> >   o inline memsize
>
> The memsize code can probably go away entirely.  The extended
> memory size is determined at several points during the boot
> process, and then ignored by the kernel.

It is needed to boot old kernel.

The kernel part of the base memory size detection is still poorly
implemented.  I doubt that int 0x12 is actually broken.  The kernel
just didn't seem to set up vm86 properly before using it.

Bruce


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