Messages in this thread | | | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0 of 3] Low memory corruption detection and workaround | Date | Tue, 9 Sep 2008 04:44:49 +1000 |
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On Tuesday 09 September 2008 02:47, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Nick Piggin wrote: > > Why not high memory as well? We put page tables there too... > > Well, the specific problem is that the BIOS appears to corrupt low > memory. It might corrupt other memory anywhere, but that would be > pretty pathologically evil. The assumption is that it gets away with it > because its memory that Windows doesn't otherwise use or something.
OK, fine, sorry I didn't follow the thread back.
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