On 2010/12/14 at 00:53, Nick Jones <nick@dischord.org> wrote:
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> 
> On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 at 22:55:59 +0800, Denise H. G. wrote:
>> > FWIW, I'm running -current with BIGMEM enabled on my X200 and it's
>> > running fine.  I've attached the output of dmesg and pcidump -v for
>> > reference.
>> > 
>> > Kernel is generic otherwise, just renamed.
>> > 
>> 
>> Great! Did you recompile your kernel? Or just modified your kernel by
>> using config(8) ? I am rather new to OpenBSD...
> 
> You need to amend:
> 
> /usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/amd64/machdep.c
> 
> And change the relevant line (1183 in the -current source I checked out
> yesterday) so that it says:
> 
> int bigmem = 1;
> 
> Then recompile your kernel as per the FAQ, reboot, and cross your fingers.
> Report your success (or failure) here.
> 

Thanks for your reply!

But the point is that I haven't yet built a custom kernel ever....
I only build custom kernels on FreeBSD... it seems custom kernels are
not popular in OpenBSD world...

Anyway thanks again!

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