Worked in RELENG_5, fails in RELENG_6

[John Baldwin]

On Nov 29, 2005, at 10:50 PM, David Kelly wrote:

>
> On Nov 29, 2005, at 5:10 PM, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
>
>> David Kelly wrote:
>>
>>> Could I
>>> boot a 5.4 CDROM to test ACPI?
>> Yes you could.  I did this the other day on a machine that doesn't  
>> even have a disk yet ;-)  acpidump is there.  Select fixit then  
>> live file system (if memory serves) but you probably knew that !
>
> Problem solved, but I've been working on it too hard not to share  
> the story which might be useful:
>
> Without hw.physmem="2G" its now finding the full memory load so I  
> don't know what was happening previously.

Actually, this is the second report I've had that setting hw.physmem  
interacts badly with ACPI.  The other report I had resulted in a  
kernel panic if it was set to 3G.

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