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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!relay.philips.nl!cnplss5!bashful!rooij From: rooij@bashful.isp.cft.philips.nl (Guido van Rooij) Subject: Re: Adding Memory? Message-ID: <1993Jul16.070418.23729@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl> Sender: news@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: bashful Organization: Philips Communications & Processing Services, Eindhoven References: <2247v2$k2n@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu> Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1993 07:04:18 GMT Lines: 18 altitude@css.itd.umich.edu (Alex Tang) writes: >Hi. What would I have to do if I wanted to upgrade from 5 to say 17 Meg on my >386? Is there anything special that I have to do for NetBSD (i.e. recompile >the kernel? Add swap?) No problem, as long as you don't have a controller doing dma itsself, like a ah1542. Then you'd have to implement bounce buffers below 16mb. Maybe someone did already, I don't know. Up to 16 mb there is no problem at all. >thanx...alex... >-- >Alex Tang -- ALTITUDE@UMICH.EDU...USERW00Y@UMICHUM.BITNET > U of M, SNRE: Student and Computer Consultant II > ITD/CSS Consultant and...General Fun Loving Guy :) -Guido