Re: [PATCH] Workaround for bogus INT 12H BIOS service implementation

2002-10-21 Thread Bruce Evans
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Mitsuru IWASAKI wrote: > > > > Hmmm, actually no. I know that some machines get panic with fatal trap > > > > 12 if we do 0x12 call. The worst case is getting panic, not losing > > > > 640K memory. > > > ... > > ... > FYI: On RELENG_4, this problem is critical too because th

Re: [PATCH] Workaround for bogus INT 12H BIOS service implementation

2002-10-02 Thread Bruce Evans
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Mitsuru IWASAKI wrote: > > > Index: sys/i386/i386/machdep.c > > > === > > > RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/i386/i386/machdep.c,v > > > retrieving revision 1.532 > > > diff -u -r1.532 machdep.c > > > --- sys/i386/i3

Re: [PATCH] Workaround for bogus INT 12H BIOS service implementation

2002-09-29 Thread Bruce Evans
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Mitsuru IWASAKI wrote: > Hi, I've found that some recent machine's BIOS doesn't support INT 12H > (Get base memory size) BIOS service, instead they seems to support > SMAP (system memory map: INT 15H function e820H) for this purpose. > I already checked that there is no probl

[PATCH] Workaround for bogus INT 12H BIOS service implementation

2002-09-29 Thread Mitsuru IWASAKI
Hi, I've found that some recent machine's BIOS doesn't support INT 12H (Get base memory size) BIOS service, instead they seems to support SMAP (system memory map: INT 15H function e820H) for this purpose. I already checked that there is no problems on Linux or Windows or others, but FreeBSD won't