Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] e820 table correction

[Andi Kleen]

On Monday 05 February 2007 17:23, Roman Kononov wrote:
> On 02/04/2007 12:33 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > Which means we want to either delete the System ROM reservation,
> > perform the System ROM reservation after other reservations from
> > the e820 map, or improve the error handling.
>
> What is the point in making reservation of a ROM which does not
> exist at all at its legacy physical location? It is disinformation.
> I would not reserve any ROM (system, video, etc.) when there is no
> ROM. The c0000-f0000 range is also wrongly converted from RAM to
> ROM by the kernel.

Yes I'm tempted to just remove all the rom probing code too together
with the sysrom because it shouldn't be needed.

-Andi