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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...


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Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
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