linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0 of 3] Low memory corruption detection and workaround

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Message-Id: <200809090444.50038.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Date:	Tue, 9 Sep 2008 04:44:49 +1000
From:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@...fmail.co.uk>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Hugh Dickens <hugh@...itas.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 3] Low memory corruption detection and workaround

On Tuesday 09 September 2008 02:47, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Nick Piggin wrote:
> > Why not high memory as well? We put page tables there too...
>
> Well, the specific problem is that the BIOS appears to corrupt low
> memory.  It might corrupt other memory anywhere, but that would be
> pretty pathologically evil.  The assumption is that it gets away with it
> because its memory that Windows doesn't otherwise use or something.

OK, fine, sorry I didn't follow the thread back.
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