>>> On 20.11.17 at 17:28, <boris.ostrov...@oracle.com> wrote: > On 11/20/2017 11:26 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: >>>>> On 20.11.17 at 17:14, <boris.ostrov...@oracle.com> wrote: >>> What could cause grub2 to fail to find space for the pointer in the >>> first page? Will we ever have anything in EBDA (which is one of the >>> possible RSDP locations)? >> Well, the EBDA (see the B in its name) is again something that's >> meaningless without there being a BIOS. > > Exactly. So it should always be available for grub to copy the pointer > there.
But what use would it be if grub copied it there? It just shouldn't be there, neither before nor after grub (just like grub doesn't introduce firmware into the system). Jan _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
