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Subject: Re: [PATCH] make the generic Linux loader usable on i386-pc again
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Robert Millan wrote:
> This patch makes the generic Linux loader usable on i386-pc again.  It
> doesn't seem like it's badly needed to spend a bit of time and a bit of
> code in adding low memory to the heap, and Vesa's work on the new memory
> manager should give a proper solution to this problem.
> 
> I think in the meantime we could just not allocate low mem, assuming
> nobody has a problem with that.

If this really blocks it I have nothing against it. But could you share
a bit insight what kind of memories are required to be where for Linux?