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From: mikem+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Meyer)
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Subject: Re: Decstation 3100 doesn't recognise 3rd party memory.
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Date: 12 Apr 90 17:23:25 GMT
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Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.dec: 12-Apr-90 Re: Decstation 3100
doesn't.. Bill Wang@iuvax.cs.india (449)


> In order for the kernel to recognize the 24 megs, you would have to
> reconfig the kernel for that and tell it in /usr/sys/conf/mips/MACHINENAME.
> The whole reconfig kernel process was well documented in DEC's 'Guide to
> system configuration file maintenance for RISC processors.'

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I don't believe this is true.  My config files have the physmem line say
8, but the kernels happily find and use 16M of memory.