Re: PCI memory allocation bug with CONFIG_HIGHMEM

[Andi Kleen]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 08:06:42PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Adam Belay wrote:
> >
> > 5.) Look into other ways of finding out if the PnPBIOS might be buggy,
> > currently we only have DMI.
> > 
> > Any others?
> 
> We could use the exception mechanism, and try to fix up any BIOS errors. 
> That would require:

[...] It would not work for x86-64 unfortunately where you cannot do 
any BIOS calls after the system is running (it would only be possible
early in boot) 

My hope was actually that there is some ACPI mechanism to do all this,
but I haven't done much research in this area yet.

-Andi
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