Re: more VXT2000 stuff

Anders Magnusson <[email protected]> Tue, 31 Dec 2002 13:23:57 +0100 (MET)
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.vax
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Changing RELOC=0x39F000 in sys/arch/vax/boot/Makefile.inc to something
> else which is actually in an existing memory region, for example
> 0x3d000, solves that problem.  (Why is the address 0x39f000 the default
> value?)
> 
Because the boot loader must be linked for a physical memory address 
high enough to be able to load the kernel at address 0, and still 
be able to use it on small-memory machines. The address 39F000 effectively
sets the lowest amount of memory you can have in a vax to 4MB.

-- Ragge