Subject: Re: 1.6ZE does not fully recognize RAM
To: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
From: Rob Sanchez <sanchero@gvsu.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/07/2003 10:13:03
Hi David,

Yes, that patch fixed it!  Thank you very much.

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NetBSD 1.6ZE (GENERIC) #0: Mon Nov  3 08:38:03 UTC 2003 
autobuild@tgm.netbsd.org:/autobuild/HEAD/i386/OBJ/autobuild/HEAD/src/sys/arch
/i386/compile/GENERIC
total memory = 319 MB
avail memory = 288 MB
using 4115 buffers containing 16460 KB of memory
BIOS32 rev. 0 found at 0xfb060
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Rob



David Laight wrote:

>>OK, I'll take a shot at this... I re-built /usr/mdec/boot with both the 1.2 
>>and 1.3 revisions of getextmemx.c, with no difference in behavior, so what 
>>I think I hear you saying is that maybe it is the boot_xxffsv1 code I 
>>should look at, since it "appears" first... is this correct?  What would be 
>>another candidate to look at?
> 
> 
> I've updated src/sys/arch/i386/stand/lib/biosmemx.S and getextmemx.c
> (the latter just adjusts when a diag print is done)
> 
> It is possible that this fixes memory detection on some systems, you
> may even have such a machine!
> 
> 	David
>