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author | David E. O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-12-31 21:46:17 +0000 |
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committer | David E. O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-12-31 21:46:17 +0000 |
commit | 9bc192de1d608fcc9ff05ca5d264b721fb2cd07b (patch) | |
tree | f6f354c3d03b8696a4b37e2ad1e3839722c4fb01 /sys/conf/NOTES | |
parent | a4264dce8c96007aeded5edf8bd28cda116637b2 (diff) | |
download | src-9bc192de1d608fcc9ff05ca5d264b721fb2cd07b.tar.gz src-9bc192de1d608fcc9ff05ca5d264b721fb2cd07b.zip |
Explain that MAXMEM maynot be nessicary for detection of >64MB RAM.
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=32143
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/sys/conf/NOTES b/sys/conf/NOTES index 5285f85a9610..5bed81b7873f 100644 --- a/sys/conf/NOTES +++ b/sys/conf/NOTES @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ # LINT -- config file for checking all the sources, tries to pull in # as much of the source tree as it can. # -# $Id: LINT,v 1.388 1997/12/28 00:28:46 jkh Exp $ +# $Id: LINT,v 1.389 1997/12/28 13:35:59 phk Exp $ # # NB: You probably don't want to try running a kernel built from this # file. Instead, you should start from GENERIC, and add options from @@ -634,10 +634,13 @@ controller isa0 # Some broken EISA and VLB hardware may need this, too. # # MAXMEM specifies the amount of RAM on the machine; if this is not -# specified, FreeBSD will read the amount of memory from the CMOS RAM, -# so the amount of memory will be limited to 64MB or 16MB depending on -# the BIOS. The amount is in kilobytes, so for a machine with 128MB of -# RAM, it would be 131072 (128 * 1024). +# specified, FreeBSD will first read the amount of memory from the CMOS +# RAM, so the amount of memory will initially be limited to 64MB or 16MB +# depending on the BIOS. If the BIOS reports 64MB, a memory probe will +# then attempt to detect the installed amount of RAM. If this probe +# fails to detect >64MB RAM you will have to use the MAXMEM option. +# The amount is in kilobytes, so for a machine with 128MB of RAM, it would +# be 131072 (128 * 1024). # # TUNE_1542 enables the automatic ISA bus speed selection for the # Adaptec 1542 boards. Does not work for all boards, use it with caution. |