From owner-cvs-all Fri Jul 2 17:39:53 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1423E14CF9; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 17:39:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA14623; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 10:09:44 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA02220; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 10:09:44 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 10:09:44 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Mike Smith 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> References: <199907022033.NAA96372@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199907022033.NAA96372@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Mike Smith on Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 01:33:35PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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