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On 4/17/2023 8:49 PM, Michael Kelley (LINUX) wrote:
>>> Why is the first map entry being skipped?
>> The first entry is populated with processor count by Hyper-V.
> Perhaps add a comment to acknowledge that the behavior
> is a bit unexpected:
> 
> The 0th entry in the memory layout array contains just a 32-bit
> processor count.  Read that value and then skip over the reminder
> of the 0th entry.  Start processing memory_map_entry's with array
> element 1.
> 

Good suggestion! Will update in the next version.