Re: [RFC] use realmode code to reserve end-of-conventional-memory to 1MB

H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-05T17:43:48Z

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> x86 has a number of historical assumptions, both in kernel and in
>> userspace (consider dmidecode!) Trying to go against them is a losing
>> proposition, *AND* a headache for the maintainers, which will have to
>> consider "oh yes, and Xen does this dumb thing which goes against what
>> all the hardware does."
>
> Ahem. "Hardware does this dumb thing that Xen avoids". kthxbye ;)

If hardware was trying to emulate Xen, you'd be right.

-hpa