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Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 17:49:56 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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Subject: Re: Ugly patches for stolen reservation
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On 07/25/2013 04:17 PM, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> Well, it's ok if the boot loader writes to this memory, the worst
> that'll happen is you'll see garbage on the screen.  If the boot loader
> tries to do MMIO mapping on top it'll get into trouble... but why would
> it do that?
> 
> Jesse

Much worse: it could be hunting for a place to put the kernel, and put
it there.

	-hpa


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