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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0 of 3] Low memory corruption detection and workaround
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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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