Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 20:26:35 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com, tony@dell.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, witr@rwwa.com Subject: Re: Can't put 512MB ram in box ... Extended memory question. Message-ID: <199704251026.UAA25681@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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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 The current bootstrap already reads in values from /boot.config (my boot.config contains "1:sd(0,a)kernel"). There has been little interest in this so I haven't made it pass userconfig info to the kernel yet. Bruce
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