From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 25 02:21:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA04246 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 02:21:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from isbalham.ist.co.uk (isbalham.ist.co.uk [192.31.26.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA04239 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 02:21:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gid.co.uk (uucp@localhost) by isbalham.ist.co.uk (8.8.4/8.8.4) with UUCP id KAA14654; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 10:14:27 +0100 (BST) Received: from [194.32.164.2] by seagoon.gid.co.uk; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 10:15:30 +0100 X-Sender: rb@194.32.164.1 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970425021142.007bb100@bugs.us.dell.com> References: <199704250001.UAA02252@spooky.rwwa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 10:12:56 +0100 To: Tony Overfield From: Bob Bishop Subject: Re: Can't put 512MB ram in box ... Extended memory question. Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, Robert Withrow Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 8:11 +0100 25/4/97, Tony Overfield wrote: >At 08:01 PM 4/24/97 -0400, Robert Withrow wrote: >>Can someone tell my why WIN95 can figure out I have 128M in this machine >>(with no special help from me) and FreeBSD can't? I don't like the idea >>of WIN95 being smarter than FreeBSD.... ;-) > >The short answer is that Windows 95 calls the BIOS to ask how much memory >is installed, but FreeBSD doesn't. ISTR there's an easy algorithm to size memory - the catch is dealing with addressing wraps, right? Can anything else go wrong on PC hardware? If anyone wants to pursue this I'll go hunting in my attic. -- Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017 international code +44 118 rb@gid.co.uk fax (0118) 989 4254 between 0800 and 1800 UK