Re: [PATCH] x86/boot: Reorganize and clean up the BIOS area reservation code

[H. Peter Anvin]

On July 21, 2016 2:11:32 AM PDT, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> 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

Yes, of course - it has to.  However, 0x2c000 although braindead shouldn't be a problem.
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