Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:58:13 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/8] x86 boot: allow overlapping ebda and efi memmap memory ranges |
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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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