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Date:      Fri, 19 Jul 1996 13:25:39 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        imp@village.org, nate@mt.sri.com
Cc:        current@freebsd.org, davidg@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cause of APM_DSVALUE_BUG found (but not completely fixed yet)
Message-ID:  <199607190325.NAA32464@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>: +			biosbasemem = bootinfo.bi_basemem;
>: +			biosextmem = bootinfo.bi_extmem;

>Hmmm.  The linux folks are running into machines that this would be
>bad for.  Evidentally, they claim, a nontrivial number of machines
>will cap the returned value at 16M of memory.

A number of machines alreay cap the value in the CMOS at 16M, and all
machines cap it at 64M, while there's nothing to stop the bootstrap
getting it right and going up to 4096GB (1024 back switched segments
of 4GB each ;-).

>It might be best to do
>this as an option.

Nope.

Bruce



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