Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 10:09:44 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 machdep.c Message-ID: <19990703100944.D87392@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199907022033.NAA96372@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Mike Smith on Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 01:33:35PM -0700 References: <199907022033.NAA96372@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Friday, 2 July 1999 at 13:33:35 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > msmith 1999/07/02 13:33:35 PDT > > Modified files: > sys/i386/i386 machdep.c > Log: > Lightly overhaul the memory sizing code again. > > - The kernel environment variable 'hw.physmem' can be used to set the > amount of physical memory space, based at 0, that FreeBSD will use. > Any memory detected over this limit is ignored. Documentation for > this is available under 'help set tunables' in the loader. > > - In the case where system memory size can't be accurately determined, > hw.physmem is used as a best-guess memory size, but speculative > probing will be used to determine actual memory size if any of the > guesses or hints are 16M or more. Don't these two paragraphs contradict each other? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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