[Intel-gfx] Ugly patches for stolen reservation

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Jul 26 02:49:56 CEST 2013


On 07/25/2013 04:17 PM, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> Well, it's ok if the boot loader writes to this memory, the worst
> that'll happen is you'll see garbage on the screen.  If the boot loader
> tries to do MMIO mapping on top it'll get into trouble... but why would
> it do that?
> 
> Jesse

Much worse: it could be hunting for a place to put the kernel, and put
it there.

	-hpa





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