On Thursday 03 January 2002 22:34, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Currently I have code looking for my tables between 0xf0000 and > 0x100000, the last 64K before 1MB.
do you mean that you are implementing native linuxbios tables and passing them to linux? > > So far where linuxBIOS lives in memory is not something we have been > at all consistent at between ports, and instead have simply made > it configurable and it probably time to start a discussion about what > we can do if anyone else is interested. if we have DoC, making linuxbios live at 0xf0000 is going to always require enabling bios shadowing in the chipset. That could be trouble. > The tables or at least a pointer to them need to be in the low always > present part of memory, because amoung other things they contain the > memory size. what about physical page 0? Just wondering. Is that used? it certainly gets turned off totally at some point. ron
