From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Oct 3 14: 0:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A5FE37B502 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 14:00:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 13gZAq-000JXY-00; Tue, 03 Oct 2000 21:00:28 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e93L2NZ02858; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 23:02:23 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 23:02:23 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Matthew Jacob Cc: FreeBSD-alpha mailing list Subject: Re: max memory on Alpha? Message-ID: <20001003230223.B2800@freebie.demon.nl> References: <20001003222814.A2562@freebie.demon.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from mjacob@feral.com on Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 01:38:01PM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message