Re: 2.6.25-rc1 xen pvops regression

Joel Becker
2008-02-20T21:47:29Z

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:51:50AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 23:43 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > NAK!
>
> As far as the actual change goes I was assuming that any machine that
> has DMI/SMBIOS would easily be new enough to have an E820 which could be
> expected to reserve this region. Looks like I was mistaken about how
> long E820 had been around and/or how reliably it is used to reserve the
> tables.
>
> Anyway, will have to think of another solution.

What changed to make this not work in the first place? New dmi
code?

Joel

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