Re: Bisected regression (Was Re: current -git fails to boot on nehalem-ex)

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 12/10/2009 01:07 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 
> it turns out BIOS is using first 64k for mptable without reserve it.
> 
> so try to find good range for it instead of hard code it.
> in case some bios try to use that range for sth.
> 

Is this an EFI BIOS?  Otherwise, the first 64K would be clobbered anyway
by the boot loader, so it is invalid anyway...  If it is EFI, it is
theoretically possible.

	-hpa
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