Subject: misc/4096: BIOSEXTMEM not documented in options.4
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 09/06/1997 23:17:17
>Number: 4096
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: BIOSEXTMEM not documented in options.4
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: misc-bug-people (Misc Bug People)
>State: open
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sun Sep 7 18:35:01 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Hubert Feyrer
>Organization:
Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
>Release: 090815 i386 Snapshot
>Environment:
System: NetBSD miyu 1.2G NetBSD 1.2G (MIYU) #12: Fri Sep 5 12:16:34 MEST 1997 feyrer@miyu:/usr/src12G-970815/sys/arch/i386/compile/MIYU i386
>Description:
BIOSEXTMEM isn't documented in options.4
>How-To-Repeat:
man BIOSEXTMEM | sed s/.^H//g | grep BIOSEXTMEM
>Fix:
--- /usr/src/share/man/man4/options.4.orig Sat Sep 6 22:55:06 1997
+++ /usr/src/share/man/man4/options.4 Sat Sep 6 23:13:31 1997
@@ -618,6 +618,11 @@
and much of the networking code.
.Em N.B. This option is silently
.Em turned on by the DEBUG option.
+.It Cd options BIOSEXTMEM=integer
+Some BIOSes don't get the size of extended memory right. If you
+have such a broken BIOS, set this value to the number of MBs over
+1M * 1024.
+This option is only available on the i386.
.El
.Ss Networking Options
.Bl -ohang
>Audit-Trail:
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