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authorTobias Weingartner <weingart@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-02-24 22:06:57 +0000
committerTobias Weingartner <weingart@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-02-24 22:06:57 +0000
commit0bb9b7b7dca2172711ad9e6d3a1f6326861f5583 (patch)
tree7fc87e984297ab2cbb4798168fc77310dcb716f9 /sys/arch/i386/stand/README
parent56d872e11254cc8a8ca03e06d9b6ae78fb8a078a (diff)
Changes/updates to /boot stuff. More to come.
Fixes many divide by zero and pointer bugs.
Diffstat (limited to 'sys/arch/i386/stand/README')
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/sys/arch/i386/stand/README b/sys/arch/i386/stand/README
index e596ac29873..170ef1fb354 100644
--- a/sys/arch/i386/stand/README
+++ b/sys/arch/i386/stand/README
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$OpenBSD: README,v 1.11 1997/10/17 15:03:16 weingart Exp $
+$OpenBSD: README,v 1.12 1998/02/24 22:06:37 weingart Exp $
# hmm, no copyright
@@ -129,10 +129,6 @@ for that drive and other info. APM connect info is passed as well not in
that apm0 structure, so apm0 will become a slave on bios0 soon.
To get your /boot installed properly on a hardrive you have to load /bsd
from that hd/partition (since only boot drive geometry is passed).
-The passed geometry will be used for all the drives, if you
-will try to installboot on other disks (floppies and pseudo-disks will
-honor the disklabel), that might be useful on some bioses,
-esp. SCSI HAs which use fixed translated geometry for all the drives.
Mon Oct 13 16:41:18 CDT 1997
@@ -144,3 +140,12 @@ preliminary support for passing a memory map to the kernel, instead of
cnvmem/extmem. This should make weird boards easier to support in the
future.
+
+Tue Jan 6 19:51:43 CST 1998
+----------------------------
+
+Query and pass PCI BIOS information to the kernel. This should help in
+determening the correct configuration mode to use. Pass in cnvmem/extmem
+as the user sets the amount of memory with the 'set memory' command, or
+the amount calculated by the memory find/probe routines.
+