On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 9:51 AM, ron minnich <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Myles Watson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> The problem is that we're going to need a way to *not* hardcode it. 4M >>> is too low because some payloads will run right over it. >> I thought it was OK for payloads to run over coreboot. We don't load them >> until we're done. Right? What am I missing? > > it's not ok to over-run the stack while loading the payload :-)
> >> Shouldn't this cause problems with the way we write mptables? If the >> mptable is too big this would write it over our stack, then zero it back >> out. My pending patch corrects this, but I didn't know it was an issue. > > page 0 is getting crowded then. > > page 0 is used in vm86 for IDT and stack. > > It may be time to make a map. I did a map long ago, but changing > circumstances have rendered it obsolete. > > ron > -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
