[coreboot] [RFC] Null pointer trap?

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Fri Nov 7 17:24:01 CET 2008


On 07.11.2008 17:15, ron minnich wrote:
> we can't do this well until we start turning on paging.

True.

> If you want to argue that we 
> should poison memory used by coreboot, I'm good with that.
>   

Poisoning as a default-off option will be forthcoming as a patch.
Default off because it will interfere with Suspend-to-RAM. But for other
cases, it may provide valuable hints. For one, it does make stack size
detection a lot more reliable.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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