On Wed, 19 May 1999, Luoqi Chen wrote: > > Jonathan Lemon <[email protected]> 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: [email protected] || ...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.
And K6-family processors with newer BIOSes are usually write allocate-enabled and that can be used too. > > -lq > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > Brian Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ [email protected] _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \ _ \ |) | http://www.freebsd.org _ |___)___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
