Re: [RFC] use realmode code to reserve end-of-conventional-memoryto 1MB

[H. Peter Anvin]

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > x86 has a number of historical assumptions, both in kernel and in 
> > userspace (consider dmidecode!)  Trying to go against them is a losing 
> > proposition, *AND* a headache for the maintainers, which will have to 
> > consider "oh yes, and Xen does this dumb thing which goes against what 
> > all the hardware does."
>
> Ahem.  "Hardware does this dumb thing that Xen avoids".  kthxbye ;)

If hardware was trying to emulate Xen, you'd be right.

	-hpa
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