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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Freeing ACPI tables after parsing
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:26:36 +0200
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> I expect that if Windows tests that the BIOS marks the region properly
> and frees it, then Linux will be able to also. 

Yes agreed. Before changing it it would be good to find out if Windows
frees it or not. If not there might be BIOS assumptions that they're still 
there.

-Andi