From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 17 9:46:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freja.webgiro.com (10.0.29.209.212.in-addr.arpa [212.209.29.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0535215515 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 09:45:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: by freja.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id DDBF018C7; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 18:45:20 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freja.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D73C94988; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 18:45:20 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 18:45:19 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: "Mark J. Taylor" , Sheldon Hearn , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal: Define MAXMEM in GENERIC In-Reply-To: <12196.921649234@zippy.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 // 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