Re: [PATCH 4/8] x86 boot: allow overlapping ebda and efi memmap memoryranges

[H. Peter Anvin]

Alan Cox wrote:
> > 0x40E contains the pointer to the EBDA; this basically tests for the 
> > existence of an EBDA at all.
>
> I'd disagree with the "very old". Machines without EBDA go right up to
> the AMD Athlon era and maybe beyond that. My old dual Athlon box has no
> EBDA.

Fair enough.

	-hpa
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