From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 15 14:34:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 118B837B401; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 14:34:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBAD643EA9; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 14:34:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id AE4545194B; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 09:04:05 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 09:04:05 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Terry Lambert Cc: "M. Warner Losh" , phk@FreeBSD.ORG, akruijff@dds.nl, DavidJohnson@Siemens.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 80386 out of GENERIC Message-ID: <20021215223405.GA97271@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <635948263.20021214220720@dds.nl> <24244.1039900460@critter.freebsd.dk> <20021214.173219.116676673.imp@bsdimp.com> <3DFC0B29.FD6F7F18@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DFC0B29.FD6F7F18@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 14 December 2002 at 20:55:05 -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > "M. Warner Losh" wrote: >> One problem with most 386 boxes is that they have very little memory. >> sysinstall is a big, bloated pig dog these days that takes more RAM >> than most 386 boxes have. This is true also for many 486 boxes too. >> So even if 386 stuff were in the default kernel, you'd likely have >> other issues in making sysinstall work and have to do custom >> hacking... > > Add to this that Bosko's workaround for the CPU bug with PSE/PGE > includes loading the kernel at 4M rather than 1M. I'm not sure I understand you. i386's have a 32 bit address space, and long ago we loaded at 0xf0000000 (3.75M). Then we dropped it to 0xc0000000 (3M). 4M is the end of the address space. Are you talking about something else? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message