Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 15:26:03 -0500 (EST) From: Uncle Flatline <flatline@gri.gallaudet.edu> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Uncle Flatline <flatline@pchb1f.gallaudet.edu>, quimica.ufpr.br@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compile my kernel Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980213152149.608A-100000@gri.gallaudet.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980213111235.1014C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Doug White wrote: > > I'm working from 2.2.5-RELEASE, installed last week. Prior to that, the > > partition was Linux. In /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/PCHB1F (my kernel config > > file) I have: options "MAXMEM=(80*1024)" > > > > The custom kernel appeared to compile okay, (except sound, but it's PnP). > > > > "sysctl hw.physmem" yields: > > hw.physmem: 82210816 > > > > "dmesg" yields: > > ... > > real memory = 83886080 (81920K bytes) > > avail memory = 78594048 (76752K bytes) > > ... > > > > Looks like it sees it all. Yes? > > So it does. I am proved otherwise. Thanks for the example! It's just good to know that LINT wasn't lying. ;-) So, what happens if you tell it that you have more memory than you actually have? (Seems to me that when I first booted the installation disk, and later when booting from the GENERIC kernel, before ever compiling my own kernel, it found all the memory.) -- Kevin Cole <Flatline> | E-mail: flatline@pchb1f.gallaudet.edu Gallaudet Research Institute | WWW: http://pchb1f.gallaudet.edu/ Hall Memorial Bldg S-419 | Voice: (202) 651-5135 Washington, D.C. 20002-3695 | FAX: (202) 651-5746 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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