Re: Memory being incorrected sized at boot-up

Martin Mares (mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Tue, 15 Jul 1997 10:37:25 +0200


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

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