> Personally, I think we should use a kernel environment variable passed in
> from loader, since kern_envp is available *real early*, from the very
> beginning of init386(), which is called form locore just after going
> virtual. It needs a couple of tweaks to get this to work, and in
> particular, the environment variable will have to override the VM86
> calls.
It shouldn't "override it", rather it should simply lower the current
4GB cap to whatever it's set to. This allows the BIOS sensing code to
correctly walk around holes, etc.
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