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Diffstat (limited to 'sys/arch/i386/stand/README')
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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. + |