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: 11/06/2003 14:42:21
>
> Neither the C nor the assembler has changed much. Although there are
> some subtle changes in the segment register values.
OK, please forgive my ignorance, but I don't know what these are...
> OTOH extemem2() doesn't use any pointers, and the mementry code ought
> to iterate through the memory regions even if the bios writes the info
> to a random address.
>
> I guess you need to (somehow) find out which code part found the memory
> soze before.
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?
Thanks for your patience.
Rob