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

[Aaron Durbin]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 4:50 PM, ron minnich  wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Aaron Durbin  wrote:
> > You'll find that once you try to write coreboot tables, things will
> > page fault as well:
> > 0000000000000000-0000000000000fff: CONFIGURATION TABLES
>
> Yep. Well, so much for catching NULL pointers. We can do that on ARM, but
> not x86.
>
> It's hard to complain. When the 8086 came out, the idea that it might do
> paging was many years off.

I think it could be changed. I was just pointing out that after you
get past the initial NULL deref there is another one lurking.

-Aaron