Re: [coreboot] kernel panics reserving EBDA pages

[yhlu]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Marc Jones  wrote:
> Roman Kononov wrote:
> > This patch fixes the EBDA mislocation problem. Thank you, Yinghai.
> >
> > The change in coreboot_table.c is not strictly necessary. It removes
> > some redundancy and confusion.
> >
> > The change in tables.c protects the legacy x86 BIOS data segment
> > (0x400-0x4ff) from being used for storing coreboot tables. Some bytes
> > from the segment are used by the kernel and should not be garbled.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Roman Kononov
>
> Wow, I am surprised we didn't see this failure sooner. I guess we were
> lucky.

128 cpus on simNow....because mptable is some big to overwrite 0x467...

YH