Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Jun 2021 20:33:15 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] x86/urgent for v5.13-rc5 |
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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...?
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette
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