Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 09:34:13 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: perhaps@yes.no (Eivind Eklund), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 machdep.c Message-ID: <199709161634.JAA20346@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Sep 1997 15:36:02 %2B0200." <199709161336.PAA05480@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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>> > Bring in changes from revs 1.262 & 1.263: speculative memory probe for >> > machines with >64MB of RAM. >> >> This still won't work on Compaqs and Dells - they report 16MB in the >> RTC memory, and expect you to use the (EISA?) BIOS to find the rest. >> (Not that I have a good solution for this, just FYI) > >can we possibly put some option in USERCONFIG to override any >compiled-in option. This is already available via the npx0 'iosize' parameter. Although this is certainly a kludge, it is sufficient until a better mechanism comes along that is more general. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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