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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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