Re: Patch to reorder functions in the vmlinux to a defined order

On Iau, 2006-02-23 at 18:20 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> BTW I have been also pondering some time to really trust e820 and not
> forcibly reserve 640K-1MB on 64bit.  That code was inherited from i386,
> but probably never made too much sense

Depends if you want your boot video stuff to work, and vga space, and
also how the ISA hole is used, some chipsets seem to use the RAM that
would be there remapped elsewhere as SMM ram.

Alan

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