Re: [PATCH] x86/boot: Reorganize and clean up the BIOS area reservation code
From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Jul 21 2016 - 05:11:43 EST
* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We already reserve the first megabyte by default. There is something really
> bizarre about this; the bug report simply doesn't seem to make any sense.
Maybe the first megabyte reservation happens after the SMP trampoline allocation
and hence the EBDA/BIOS reservation matters to our ability to allocate the SMP
trampoline specifically?
Anyway, agreed that we need more information.
Thanks,
Ingo