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SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] x86/urgent for v5.13-rc5
On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 05:53:15PM +0000, Michael Kelley wrote:
> I checked with the Windows team. Peter Anvin's statement from 11
> years ago is true. On Intel and AMD processors, Windows unconditionally
> reserves the 1st megabyte of memory, minus one page used for real
> mode startup. This is done to work around BIOS bugs.

Thanks for checking!

I guess us doing the same is probably fine.

Linus, maybe we should at least give it a try and see whether someone
complains and revert, potentially...?

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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