port-pmax: Re: DECstation 5000/200 memory size detection

Subject: Re: DECstation 5000/200 memory size detection
To: None <port-pmax@netbsd.org>
From: Toru Nishimura <nisimura@itc.aist-nara.ac.jp>
List: port-pmax
Date: 06/20/2000 16:36:48

	[ ... mixing differenct sized SIMM in single system ... ]

> This leads to an
> overestimation of the amount of memory available and eventually, usually
> once the system is in multi-user mode, the kernel panics. I am currently
> running happily with 96M of RAM, but I would like to use the other 40M.

Accurate SIMM size detection is one of long standing issues for
NetBSD/pmax.  Currently, kernel logic would never allow to have
different sized SIMM in a single system. 

Tohru Nishimura