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Re: [PATCH v2] x86: Use low memory size directly from Multiboot


  • To: dinhngoc.tu@xxxxxxx
  • From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2022 16:22:59 +0100
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On 09.02.2022 16:20, dinhngoc.tu@xxxxxxx wrote:
> This change should only affect the particular case of booting with Multiboot2 
> without EFI (e.g. legacy BIOS or Kexec). Other cases like Multiboot 0.x, EFI 
> booting (with or without MB2), or bootloaders that generate the BASIC_MEMINFO 
> tag correctly shouldn't be affected.

How that? You're taking out the reading of the BDA value altogether,
aren't you? This is certainly a change affecting other environments
as well.

Jan




 


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