Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 17:37:11 GMT From: James Raynard <james@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: i386/1334: MAXMEM option not documented in LINT Message-ID: <199606181737.RAA02094@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Resent-Message-ID: <199606182300.QAA06842@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 1334 >Category: i386 >Synopsis: MAXMEM option not documented in LINT >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Jun 18 16:00:02 PDT 1996 >Last-Modified: >Originator: James Raynard >Organization: James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland >Release: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386 >Environment: Latest -current, but missing in 2.1.0-RELEASE as well. >Description: There have been several postings to -questions recently from people asking why FreeBSD can only see 64MB when their machine has more RAM. This should IMHO be in LINT, especially as such machines are likely to become more and more popular. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: Something like the following:- --- LINT.orig Mon Jun 17 18:02:42 1996 +++ LINT Mon Jun 17 18:29:07 1996 @@ -463,6 +463,11 @@ # than 16 megabytes of memory. It doesn't hurt on other machines. # Some broken EISA and VLB hardware may need this, too. # +# MAXMEM specifies the amount of RAM on the machine; if this is not +# specified, only the first 64MB will be used. The amount is in kilobytes, +# so for a machine with 128MB of RAM, it would be 131072. Not needed if +# you have 64MB or less. +# # TUNE_1542 enables the automatic ISA bus speed selection for the # Adaptec 1542 boards. Does not work for all boards, use it with caution. # @@ -475,6 +480,7 @@ options "AUTO_EOI_1" #options "AUTO_EOI_2" options BOUNCE_BUFFERS +#options "MAXMEM=131072" #options "TUNE_1542" #options BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET #options PAS_JOYSTICK_ENABLE >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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