Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 1 Apr 2002, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > I don't have a problem with that. We might have to do something interesting > > with the MP tables. But it should work just fine. You are the one who > > originally insisted the LinuxBIOS table be at 0. All of my code looks in > > boot places for the LinuxBIOS table first 0-4K then 0xf0000 - 0xFFFF. > > yeah, my fault. Sorry. The reason for 0-basing those tables was: > 1- linux doesn't use page 0 > 2- if we put them at 0, we can kill the infamous "hole in memory" > > OK, eric, before I push a potentially Very Bad Idea -- should we force > linux to look for PIRQ in the 0-4096 range instead. We just recently > discovered this crazy problem with PIRQ, DoC, and some mainboards. What's > the best thing to do?
I'd say it sounds sane to move the pirq table into the LinuxBIOS table. And teach the kernel about it for the LinuxBIOS case.s Eric
