From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 15 01:52:26 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id BAA11784 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 15 Dec 1996 01:52:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz401.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz401.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id BAA11766 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 1996 01:52:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz401.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA29337; Sun, 15 Dec 1996 10:51:44 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA19404; Sun, 15 Dec 1996 10:51:44 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id KAA10237; Sun, 15 Dec 1996 10:49:13 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199612150949.KAA10237@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: MAXMEM was: Re: 2.1.6 on Compaq Prosignia 500 (2.1.5 worked) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 10:49:13 +0100 (MET) Cc: tony@dell.com (Tony Overfield) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19961214202436.0067ea7c@bugs.us.dell.com> from Tony Overfield at "Dec 14, 96 08:24:46 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Tony Overfield wrote: > There are standardized BIOS calls to obtain the correct amount of > memory, even when it exceeds 65 MB. I think the boot loader should > make these BIOS calls and pass the correct information to the kernel. What BIOS calls? My old notebook is probably the oldest machine that somebody would be willing and able to run FreeBSD on (386/16, 5 MB RAM, approx. 1990/91), so i could test its BIOS for the existance of that call. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)