From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 24 17:15:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA14411 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 17:15:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pop01.ny.us.ibm.net (pop01.ny.us.ibm.net [165.87.194.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA14392 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 17:14:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mail@localhost) by pop01.ny.us.ibm.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) id AAA23406; Sun, 25 Aug 1996 00:14:55 GMT Message-Id: <199608250014.AAA23406@pop01.ny.us.ibm.net> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "FreeBSD questions" Date: Sat, 24 Aug 96 20:14:00 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Francisco Reyes's Registered PMMail 1.52 For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Kernel customation questions Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I did my first new kernel today and it worked. What I don't understand is why it is taking the same amount of memory as the previous one. When I do dmesg the amount of available memory are the same as with the previous kernel. The parts that I commented were mostly HD controllers and ethernet cards. Wasn't that supposed to reduce the amount of memory in use? I am also confused about: >machine "i386" >cpu "I386_CPU" >cpu "I486_CPU" >cpu "I586_CPU" The explanation in LINT mentions that the machine specifies the cpu one is compiling for. Can I change "i386" to "i486"?