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

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Tue Mar 11 00:50:53 CET 2014


On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Aaron Durbin <adurbin at chromium.org> wrote:

>
> You'll find that once you try to write coreboot tables, things will
> page fault as well:
>
>  0. 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.

ron
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