[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] e820 table correction

Andi Kleen ak at suse.de
Sun Feb 4 18:37:17 CET 2007


On Sunday 04 February 2007 11:45, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Sunday 04 February 2007 03:39, yhlu wrote:
> >> commit dbf9272e863bf4b17ee8e3c66c26682b2061d40d
> >> Author: Andi Kleen <ak at suse.de>
> >> Date:   Tue Sep 26 10:52:36 2006 +0200
> >>
> >>     [PATCH] Don't force reserve the 640k-1MB range
> > 
> > Ok, but if that breaks LinuxBios then the problem is clearly in LinuxBIOS
> > and needs to be fixed there.
> 
> Why? Is LinuxBIOS breaking some standard here?

If anything between 640K and 1MB isn't memory it should report
that properly in the e820 map.

-Andi





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