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

Ingo Molnar
2008-02-29T20:00:54Z

* Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> wrote:

> Agreed, I think it's pure luck that Xen kernels have gotten away with
> it in the past.
>
> The patch below seems like the right thing to do. It certainly boots
> in a domU without the DMI problem (without any of the other related
> patches such as Alexander's).
>
> However ddcprobe hangs when run -- need to investigate some more, vm86
> in general works ok (i.e. my vm86 test code passes).

looks good to me - please resend with a note to add it to x86.git once
you are happy with it. Seems like 2.6.25 material as well.

Ingo