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From: "Charles M. Hannum" <mycroft@mit.edu>
To: Tony Overfield <tony@dell.com>
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FWIW, the new boot code in NetBSD actually does use the extended BIOS
calls to find more memory (and also reads gzipped kernels).  This is
handy on my development machine with 256MB.  B-)

(So, now you not only know it can be done, but you know where to find
an example...)