On 2010/12/14 at 00:53, Nick Jones <n...@dischord.org> wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 at 22:55:59 +0800, Denise H. G. wrote: >> > FWIW, I'm running -current with BIGMEM enabled on my X200 and it's >> > running fine. I've attached the output of dmesg and pcidump -v for >> > reference. >> > >> > Kernel is generic otherwise, just renamed. >> > >> >> Great! Did you recompile your kernel? Or just modified your kernel by >> using config(8) ? I am rather new to OpenBSD... > > You need to amend: > > /usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/amd64/machdep.c > > And change the relevant line (1183 in the -current source I checked out > yesterday) so that it says: > > int bigmem = 1; > > Then recompile your kernel as per the FAQ, reboot, and cross your fingers. > Report your success (or failure) here. >
Thanks for your reply! But the point is that I haven't yet built a custom kernel ever.... I only build custom kernels on FreeBSD... it seems custom kernels are not popular in OpenBSD world... Anyway thanks again! -- If reproducibility may be a problem conduct the test only once.
