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Date:      Wed, 7 Jul 2004 12:58:46 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/acpica acpi_pcib_acpi.c
Message-ID:  <200407071258.46610.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <40EC27C2.7060509@root.org>
References:  <200407041623.i64GNPuv050165@repoman.freebsd.org> <200407071105.04341.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <40EC27C2.7060509@root.org>

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On Wednesday 07 July 2004 12:41 pm, Nate Lawson wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Sunday 04 July 2004 12:23 pm, Warner Losh wrote:
> >>imp         2004-07-04 16:23:25 UTC
> >>
> >>  FreeBSD src repository
> >>
> >>  Modified files:
> >>    sys/dev/acpica       acpi_pcib_acpi.c
> >>  Log:
> >>  Make the default memory range in the top 2GB of ram in the hopes that
> >>  this more accurately reflects what the underlying hardware of most
> >>  acpi machines that don't have children pci busses.
> >>
> >>  We still need a better way to get this information from acpi/hardware.
> >
> > s/better/ and AFAIK ACPI doesn't provide such information. :(  Even if
> > they did it'd probably be as screwed up as the _BBN fiasco.
>
> Yeah, ACPI doesn't have it.  I'm guessing the hw is the only way to get
> this info.

And there's no standard way to get it from hw if the hw even supports telling 
you.

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