Subject: Re: Adaptec install
To: Takahiro Kanbe <taca@fxis.fujixerox.co.jp>
From: Gary D. Duzan <gary@wheel.tiac.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/08/1995 10:36:22
In Message <199511081109.UAA08740@baby.nwt.fxis.fujixerox.co.jp> ,
Takahiro Kanbe <taca@fxis.fujixerox.co.jp> wrote:
=>On Mon, 6 Nov 95 11:03:01 EST
=> Mike Long <mike.long@analog.com> writes:
=>> Explanation of the 'DMA beyond the end of ISA' message and how to
=>> eliminate it should be added to the i386 INSTALL notes, if it's not
=>> already present.
=>
=>Add the hack to restrict main memory as 16M bytes in machdep.c for
=>i386, and the kernel for install floppy should enable it. This
=>isn't the best solution but helps those 16M> machine for running
=>NetBSD without other machine's support.
If such a hack exists, is there any reason why it couldn't be a
kernel config option for now until the underlying problem is dealt
with?
Gary D. Duzan
Humble Practitioner of the Computer Arts