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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:20:52 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] x86: check for and defend against BIOS memory corruption
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> 
> It would be easy to add another kernel parameter to select how much
> memory to reserve for corruption checking.  64k?  1M?
> 

Or just make the boot_corruption_check parameter take a range instead of 
a boolean.

	-hpa
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