> distributions: we had to re-design LILO, because the Phoenix BIOS used
> the upper end of base memory for storing the SMP config table (ask Zach
> Brown), we had to work on the memory management initialization because
> of the same problem, another bug in the mm initialization prevented the
> system from using base memory (beats me why this hasn't surfaced
> earlier). We had to build custom installation floppy images, kernel
Basically they didnt show up because _only_ Fujitsu/Siemens use that paticular
weird memory layout. You need a fairly specific setup where SMM mode
code that uses EBDA space.
Free software is good at being reliable - but its a testing/review/fixing
scheme that is nothing like as effective at finding situations where the code
works for everyone currently but isnt quite to specification.
Alan
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