Re: Bisected regression (Was Re: current -git fails to boot on nehalem-ex)

H. Peter Anvin
2009-12-10T22:40:28Z

On 12/10/2009 01:07 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>
> it turns out BIOS is using first 64k for mptable without reserve it.
>
> so try to find good range for it instead of hard code it.
> in case some bios try to use that range for sth.
>

Is this an EFI BIOS? Otherwise, the first 64K would be clobbered anyway
by the boot loader, so it is invalid anyway... If it is EFI, it is
theoretically possible.

-hpa