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From: rooij@bashful.isp.cft.philips.nl (Guido van Rooij)
Subject: Re: Adding Memory?
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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