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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>,
	untaintableangel@hotmail.co.uk, x86@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/Kconfig: decrease maximum of X86_RESERVE_LOW to 512K
Date: Fri, 28 May 2021 16:43:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YLEBeJwHgnLxRtYW@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7525409-3987-f79d-9f52-71f6c0231491@zytor.com>

On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 07:12:51PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> BIOSes have been known to clobber more than 64K. They aren't supposed to
> clobber any.

Yah, the BIOSes and what they're not supposed to do. Like they even care.

> 640K is the limit because that is the address of the EGA/VGA frame
> buffer. In the words of Bill Gates "640K ought to be enough for anyone."

Right.

So thoughts on:

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YK%2Bgv0vDfLVD7Sqp@kernel.org

?

Time to do what windoze 7 does?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette

  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-28 14:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-26  8:11 [PATCH] x86/Kconfig: decrease maximum of X86_RESERVE_LOW to 512K Mike Rapoport
2021-05-26  8:47 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-05-26 16:30   ` Mike Rapoport
2021-05-26 18:14     ` Borislav Petkov
2021-05-27 13:38       ` Mike Rapoport
2021-05-28 14:41         ` Borislav Petkov
2021-05-28  2:12       ` H. Peter Anvin
2021-05-28 14:43         ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2021-05-28 20:20           ` H. Peter Anvin
2021-05-31  9:32         ` David Laight
2021-05-31 12:59           ` H. Peter Anvin

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