On 8/9/07, Alan Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > > What's the EBDA actually used for? The only place which seems to use > > ebda_addr is in the e820 code to avoid that area as RAM. > > It belongs to the firmware. Wouldn't it be better, then, to just skip this step unconditionally if we are running a paravirtualized guest? What do we from doing it? -- Glauber de Oliveira Costa. "Free as in Freedom" http://glommer.net "The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act." - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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