Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:15:59 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.25-rc1 xen pvops regression |
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Alan Cox wrote: >> Actually I switched 64bit over to trust e820 completely and not >> reserve 640k-1MB explicitly some time ago >> and AFAIK there hasn't been any reports that it causes problems. >> >> So presumably trusting e802 is ok on modern systems (2003+) > > Apparently so - at least 64bit capable ones.
They should all use the same BIOS code bases, except perhaps some embedded weirdnesses.
We do still sort the entries > to remove zero length records and other suprises.
That code could be actually dropped. And the sorting too. It's all not needed I think.
AFAIK none of the e820 access code cares about any of that.
64bit only has it because I copied it originally and never bothered to remove it.
-Andi
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