Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 08:27:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com> To: jerry.alexandratos@perspectives.net, jlemon@americantv.com Cc: ctapang@easystreet.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FBSDBOOT.EXE Message-ID: <199905191227.IAA11701@lor.watermarkgroup.com>
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> Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> says: > : > : Not true. VM86 is also required to support VESA. Also, it is used > : for reliable memory detection (which is why I want to make it mandatory). > : No more "My Stinkpad only detected 64M, what do I do now??!" questions. > > Actually, even with VM86, the kernel still doesn't correctly detect the > StinkPad's memory. > > --Jerry > > name: Jerry Alexandratos || Open-Source software isn't a > phone: 302.521.1018 || matter of life or death... > email: jalexand@perspectives.net || ...It's much more important > || than that! It just occurred to me that we might be able to use initial MTRR settings by BIOS for memory detection (P6 and above, of course). Don't know how reliable that is. -lq To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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