On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 3:42 PM, David Woodhouse <dw...@infradead.org> wrote:
> The main issue I have on the OVMF side is that it locks the entire
> memory region from 0xC0000-0xFFFFF to be read-only, right before
> invoking the Legacy16Boot method. This upsets SeaBIOS, which puts a
> stack in the E0000 segment for use during hardware interrupts and other
> calls which may otherwise overflow a caller's stack. There isn't
> anywhere *else* it could put this stack, easily.

Is this still an issue? If so, why not use EBDA?

I think it is extremely unlikely that EFI_COMPATIBILITY16_TABLE will
be modified.

-Jordan

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