Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 01:47:05 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Tony Overfield <tony@dell.com> Cc: Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Can't put 512MB ram in box ... Extended memory question. Message-ID: <1938.861958025@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 25 Apr 1997 02:11:42 CDT." <3.0.1.32.19970425021142.007bb100@bugs.us.dell.com>
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> A third, perhaps unseemly, possibility, that I haven't seen mentioned > before, is to make the real-mode BIOS call from the kernel init code > in the same way that the APM initilization BIOS call is made, by > temporarily returning the CPU to real-mode after the kernel is loaded. If that would allow me to read in initialization values from an optional file in the root filesystem, just as the kernel is read in, at the point where userconfig() is called in machdep.c, well, I'd vote for it with all flags waving. The "userconfig save" feature broke again recently in sysinstall (I don't know why) and it's simply become Yet Again Apparent that sysinstall & dset are barking up the wrong trees with the way they do their configuration saving. It's a rude hack right now, and if we could simply read in a file and set the kernel's initial state from it, well, that would be very nice. :-) Jordan
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