Re: [PATCH 10/28] i386: map enough initial memory to create lowmem mappings

Andi Kleen
2007-04-23T17:55:17Z

On Monday 23 April 2007 19:45:41 H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >
> > - I know of one system that had BIOS tables at 16MB I believe (and
> > thus had a fairly low hole).
> >
>
> Please name names, otherwise this is just rumouring. Seriously. We
> have enough cargo-cult programming as it is.

Unisys did this at some point in their large machines, but they fixed
that in a later BIOS.

Anyways, boot up should be robust against any holes if possible.

-Andi