Re: [coreboot] I've turned on paging as a test

[Jonathan A. Kollasch]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 02:43:45PM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> Now you've just made me sad.
>
> OK, given that in the beginning times we never supplied this little tidbit,
> who or what needs it? It looks like another memory turd whose time has gone.

Put it this way, any payload that presents a BIOS or CSM is going to need
to populate the BDA where software expects to find it (at 0x400).

I've not actually looked in to why coreboot itself cares about the BDA.

Perhaps the BDA can be passed to the payload.

Jonathan Kollasch