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

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From: Nick Piggin

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

Date: Monday, September 8, 2008 - 11:44 am

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 wor ..., Alan Jenkins, (Sun Sep 7, 8:24 am)

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Re: [PATCH 0 of 3] Low memory corruption detection and wor ..., Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Mon Sep 8, 9:47 am)

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