Re: [patch] Fix BIOS-e820 end address

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From: Jan Engelhardt

Subject: Re: [patch] Fix BIOS-e820 end address

Date: Saturday, September 8, 2007 - 12:05 am

On Sep 8 2007 13:50, Keshavamurthy, Anil S wrote:
quoted text>--snip of boot message--
>BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
> BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
> BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000007fe8cc00 (usable)
>----end snip---
>
>As you see from above the address 0000000000100000 is both
>shown as reserved and usable which is confusing.
>
>This patch fixes the BIOS-e820 end address.

If a segment should have size 0 (even possible?), your
patch makes it even more confusing.


	Jan
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Re: [patch] Fix BIOS-e820 end address, Jan Engelhardt, (Sat Sep 8, 12:05 am)

[patch] Fix BIOS-e820 end address, Keshavamurthy, Anil S, (Sat Sep 8, 1:50 pm)

Re: [patch] Fix BIOS-e820 end address, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Fri Sep 14, 2:00 pm)

Re: [patch] Fix BIOS-e820 end address, Keshavamurthy, Anil S, (Fri Sep 14, 2:31 pm)

Re: [patch] Fix BIOS-e820 end address, Siddha, Suresh B, (Fri Sep 14, 2:31 pm)


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