Subject: Re: i386 -current snapshot
To: Laine Stump <laine@morningstar.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/31/1997 18:18:02
Laine Stump writes:
> Jason mentioned on current-users that someone was making a new binary
> snapshot of -current for i386. Could I request to whoever is making that
> snapshot that they also include the kernel source tarfile from the
> snapshot day along with the normal binary tarfiles? In the past I've had
> to just grab whatever was in -current on the day I ftp'ed the binaries,
> which means that I'm not necessarily working with the same code after I
> build my own kernel.

I'll see what I can do.

> (Yes, I do need to use a non-GENERIC kernel - most of my systems have
> 128MB of RAM, and last I knew (as of March) it still didn't detect it
> automatically. You know, I thought that at one time somebody had a piece
> of code to remedy that. Is there any reason it has never been committed?
> Or was it and I'm just sadly informed?)

There are several pieces of code floating about that detect ram over
64M, but none of them seem to work consistantly on all i386
boxes. Some even hang some machines hard.

Perry