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Subject: Re: MP FP struct in the EBDA
To: zwane@linux.realnet.co.sz (Zwane Mwaikambo)
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 09:11:49 +0000 (GMT)
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> "If it is an SMP machine we should know now, unless the
> configuration is in an EISA/MCA bus machine with an extended bios data
> area."

Yes that was fixed.

> I'd presume this statement isn't true today, e.g. one of the IBM Netfinity
> boxes here (3500M20) has the MP tables in the EBDA. Also how come we
> search the whole EBDA (4k)? Whilst the MP 1.4 spec sheet says search the
> first kilobyte only.

We used to search the last 4K of RAM in the low 640Kb, it looks like that
was never changed when we began using the EBDA pointer properly. 
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