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Date:      Tue, 3 Oct 2000 23:02:23 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>
To:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-alpha mailing list <freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: max memory on Alpha?
Message-ID:  <20001003230223.B2800@freebie.demon.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010031330120.12214-100000@zeppo.feral.com>; from mjacob@feral.com on Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 01:38:01PM -0700
References:  <20001003222814.A2562@freebie.demon.nl> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010031330120.12214-100000@zeppo.feral.com>

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On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 01:38:01PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> 
> > ...
> > 
> > > I have 3 8400s to play with- 2 with 2GB each.
> > > 
> > > What I can do is to swipe one system's boards and put it in the one running
> > > FreeBSD.. but time, time time...
> > 
> > Do you by any chance know of a way to instruct the TLaser SRM to pretend it
> > has less memory than is physically installed? I don't want to swap boards to
> > often, the TLaser backplane is a bit delicate.
> 
> The TLaser backplane is built like a buffalo. It's the KTHA && KTIO cables

But the connector pins are not..

> I don't know what the SRM value might be (if any) to set.

OK.

> It'd probably be easier to try and limit the sizes to the first contiguous 2GB
> in alpha_init in machdep.c
> 
> Look- I'll try and check this all out wednesday.

No rush, I am *not* pushing you! ;-)

-- 
Wilko Bulte  	 
wilko@freebsd.org 			Arnhem, the Netherlands


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