[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] e820 table correction

Roman Kononov kononov195-lbl at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 5 17:23:33 CET 2007


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.




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