Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 18:45:19 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: "Mark J. Taylor" <mtaylor@cybernet.com>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@iafrica.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal: Define MAXMEM in GENERIC Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903171844300.8286-100000@freja.webgiro.com> In-Reply-To: <12196.921649234@zippy.cdrom.com>
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On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > For our NetMAX product (shameless plug: http://www.netmax.com/), > > which is 2.2.7+ based (we're working on a 3.1 version), we've > > added two additional boot options: > > 1) -M always perform speculative memory probe > > 2) -m never perform speculative memory probe > > Now there's an idea, though I'd go a little further: Why not add a new > variable to the 3-stage loader so you could simply say: > > boot> set maxmem=64M > boot> load /kernel > boot> boot > (etc) Ehm... That's exactly what I suggested. See Mike's reply earlier in this thread. Andrzej Bialecki // <abial@webgiro.com> WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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