Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 15:23:38 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: mycroft@mit.edu (Charles M. Hannum) Cc: tony@dell.com, jamil@trojanhorse.ml.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: >64MB Message-ID: <199711052023.PAA00512@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199711050917.EAA07537@trinity.mit.edu> from "Charles M. Hannum" at "Nov 5, 97 04:17:42 am"
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Charles M. Hannum said: > > 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...) > I don't do boot code (that is other's territory), but I have wondered why the "standard" extended BIOS calls weren't used in FreeBSD also. -- John dyson@freebsd.org jdyson@nc.com
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