From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 19 18: 2:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19FFF15678 for ; Wed, 19 May 1999 18:01:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@unixhelp.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA76976; Wed, 19 May 1999 21:00:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 21:00:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Feldman X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Luoqi Chen Cc: jerry.alexandratos@perspectives.net, jlemon@americantv.com, ctapang@easystreet.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FBSDBOOT.EXE In-Reply-To: <199905191227.IAA11701@lor.watermarkgroup.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 19 May 1999, Luoqi Chen wrote: > > Jonathan Lemon says: > > : > > : Not true. VM86 is also required to support VESA. Also, it is used > > : for reliable memory detection (which is why I want to make it mandatory). > > : No more "My Stinkpad only detected 64M, what do I do now??!" questions. > > > > Actually, even with VM86, the kernel still doesn't correctly detect the > > StinkPad's memory. > > > > --Jerry > > > > name: Jerry Alexandratos || Open-Source software isn't a > > phone: 302.521.1018 || matter of life or death... > > email: jalexand@perspectives.net || ...It's much more important > > || than that! > > It just occurred to me that we might be able to use initial MTRR settings > by BIOS for memory detection (P6 and above, of course). Don't know how > reliable that is. And K6-family processors with newer BIOSes are usually write allocate-enabled and that can be used too. > > -lq > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > Brian Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@unixhelp.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \ _ \ |) | http://www.freebsd.org _ |___)___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message