Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755275AbYH2KYV (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:24:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752493AbYH2KYL (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:24:11 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:47244 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751804AbYH2KYJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:24:09 -0400 Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:06:41 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: "=?UTF-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?=" Cc: "Jeremy Fitzhardinge" , "Yinghai Lu" , "Ingo Molnar" , "Alan Jenkins" , "Hugh Dickens" , "H. Peter Anvin" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] x86: check for and defend against BIOS memory corruption Message-ID: <20080829110641.2310e418@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <48B701FB.2020905@goop.org> <86802c440808281849nb972d64te89894077ea9f33c@mail.gmail.com> <48B76CE0.5010309@goop.org> <20080829102547.655440bf@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 503 Lines: 11 > I understand that disabling chunk of RAM on every, even not affected, > machine is far from perfect, but we have to remember about not > advanced end-users. Including not advanced end users without the bug ... which is probably all but one or two people. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/