Re: machdep.c problem

2002-11-15 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Bruce Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > I retained the int 12h fallback just to be safe, but I > > > > think the bootinfo structure is initialized with a valid basemem > > > > for all loaders since at least 1998. (Maybe the fallbacks in the > > Since 1995, but not in boot2 since 2002/

Re: machdep.c problem

2002-11-15 Thread Bruce Evans
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, David Schultz wrote: > Thus spake Mitsuru IWASAKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > This approach is okay with me in the sense that it doesn't break > > > anything that wasn't already broken, but as you say, I think we > > > can do better. Below is a patch that merely extracts the b

Re: machdep.c problem

2002-11-10 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Mitsuru IWASAKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > This approach is okay with me in the sense that it doesn't break > > anything that wasn't already broken, but as you say, I think we > > can do better. Below is a patch that merely extracts the basemem > > size from the bootinfo structure for the

Re: machdep.c problem

2002-11-10 Thread Mitsuru IWASAKI
Hi, > Thus spake Mitsuru IWASAKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > OK, it seems to be difficult to determine the region for any BIOSes. > > I've decided to introduce a new loader tunable to indicate that BIOS > > has broken int 12H. Attached patch back out 1.385.2.26 changes to > > support older BIOSes, a

Re: machdep.c problem

2002-11-10 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Mitsuru IWASAKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > OK, it seems to be difficult to determine the region for any BIOSes. > I've decided to introduce a new loader tunable to indicate that BIOS > has broken int 12H. Attached patch back out 1.385.2.26 changes to > support older BIOSes, and add support