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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/28] i386: map enough initial memory to create lowmem mappings
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:54:46 +0200
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On Monday 23 April 2007 19:45:41 H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > 
> > - I know of one system that had BIOS tables at 16MB I believe (and
> >   thus had a fairly low hole).
> > 
> 
> Please name names, otherwise this is just rumouring.  Seriously.  We 
> have enough cargo-cult programming as it is.

Unisys did this at some point in their large machines, but they fixed
that in a later BIOS.

Anyways, boot up should be robust against any holes if possible.

-Andi