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

Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-03-05T17:34:05Z

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 ;)

J