Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 10:42:35 +0100 From: "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: VM coloring description in NOTES Message-ID: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D76AF@l04.research.kpn.com>
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> > > currently -> candidate
> > > PQ_HUGECACHE PQ_CACHE1024
> > > PQ_LARGECACHE PQ_CACHE512
> > > PQ_MEDIUMCACHE PQ_CACHE256
> > > PQ_NORMALCACHE PQ_CACHE64
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Hmm. At boot time, the BIOS displayes this square box with a lot of grub in
it that FreeBSD then proceeds to rediscover. Is there no way to whack the
BIOS into submission and have it cough up the cache size?
It's probably going to be BIOS-vendor specific *sigh*. Then again, perhaps
it would be nice to have an interface to some of the more widely used
bioses. I image you could pry all sorts of tuning information about the
machine from its clammy little hands. Cache size, cache scheme, memory type.
There were earlier comments on FreeBSD taking over the task of the BIOS.
Food for thought. :-)
Kees Jan
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