From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 14 9:16:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 128D714C10 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 09:16:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA22243; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 12:13:57 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 12:13:57 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal: Define MAXMEM in GENERIC In-Reply-To: <63209.921431112@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Mon, 15 Mar 1999 01:54:46 +0900, "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > > I'm against this. Magazines test OS as they come out of the box. > > This was the argument I raised in my original mail. However, it looks > pretty ugly on paper: > > It is quite possible that you will have problems installing > FreeBSD on your high-end machine, but you'll have great > benchmarks once you do. > > ;-) > > Anyway, I'm loath for this to turn into an unproductive flame war, so > I won't try to argue an opinion I've already put forward. Instead, I > ask whether there's any other solution you can think of, since we're > likely to see more and more people having problems related to failed > speculative memory probes as >64MB machines become entry-level. There seems to be a pretty easy solution. It hasn't been done, but it's perfectly possible, and probably desireable, to go from having just one GENERIC to having two. Having a GENERIC_BIG would solve both your problems, and create very little bloat, wouldn't it? This would be a Jordan-problem, I think. Maybe it would create other problems with regards to installation, I don't know. It doesn't immediately appear ridiculous, tho. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message