Subject: Re: watch out -- more than 1G RAM on a laptop causes cardbus issues
To: Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/27/2004 08:05:37
Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org> writes:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 09:02:12PM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> | We really need some sort of more permanent solution to this problem,
> | or people may find themselves in a bit of pain when trying to install.
> |
> | ACPI can be used on some machines, but some other mechanism needs to
> | be found for machines not running ACPI.
>
> Clamp maximum RAM to 1GB for non ACPI machines?
>
> (How many laptops support >1GB and don't have functional ACPI?)
All, since our ACPI code doesn't suspend or do anything else you need
to make ACPI worthwhile.
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Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com