> 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. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msm...@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
