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

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To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...>

Cc: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@...>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, Hugh Dickens <hugh@...>, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...>, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...>

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

Date: Monday, September 8, 2008 - 2:44 pm

On Tuesday 09 September 2008 02:47, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
quoted text> 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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Re: [PATCH 0 of 3] Low memory corruption detection and worka..., Alan Jenkins, (Sun Sep 7, 11:24 am)

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