Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 13:27:05 -0800 (PST) From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: installing on a thinkpad 750 Message-ID: <199503162127.NAA12697@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <9503162103.AA24601@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Mar 16, 95 02:03:56 pm
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> > >> The problem may be that the APM BIOS uses memory that it has reserved > > >> below 640K. FreeBSD doesn't honor BIOS reserved memory. > > > > >This theory doesn't make sense. The problem with it is that the BIOS > > >is not accessed after BSD boots, and BSD doesn't load into the BIOS > > >reserved area while the boot blocks are running before that. > > > > The APM BIOS is accessed whenever BSD is idle. > > How? Who makes the BIOS call, and what is "idle"? I actually don't > think the BIOS is used when running in protected mode. In the ones Read the APM spec, see our kernels #ifdef APM... -- Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'
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