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From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]HVM E820 Table cleanup
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:50:18 +0200
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  Hi,

> According to ACPI spec, OS may use e820 ACPI_DATA region as RAM after OS
> boots up (but acturally Linux doesn't use it).
> But for memory ACPI tables reside, OS can not use like that.

On a related topic: how about the e820 tables itself?  Right now they
are at 0x00090000 (E820_MAP_PAGE), that is within a region listed as
normal RAM, which looks wrong ...

cheers,
  Gerd

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