Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jul 1997 10:37:25 +0200 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: Memory being incorrected sized at boot-up |
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Hi,
> > OK, I incorrectly assumed we call the old function first and continue > >with the new one only if it reports 64M... > > That's what I did in 2.0.30, unfortuantely BIOS on Compaq's only > reports a maximum of 16MB wiht the old BIOS call.
Maybe call the new one for >=16MB? This will reduce the chance of crash on a mis-behaved BIOS to minimum. If such broken BIOS'es exist, they are probably on the 386's and most 386 machines have probably <16MB RAM.
Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@gts.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth "Q: Do you believe in One God? A: Yes, up to isomorphism."
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