Re: [PATCH 10/28] i386: map enough initial memory to create lowmemmappings

[H. Peter Anvin]

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> - I know of one system that had BIOS tables at 16MB I believe (and
>   thus had a fairly low hole).

Please name names, otherwise this is just rumouring.  Seriously.  We 
have enough cargo-cult programming as it is.

A lot of old ISA systems had an option to put a memory hole at 15-16 MB 
to support ISA video cards with linear frame buffer.  It very rarely got 
used, since VLB took over around the same time.

	-hpa
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