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SubjectRe: PCI memory allocation bug with CONFIG_HIGHMEM
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 06:02:56AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > 5.) Look into other ways of finding out if the PnPBIOS might be buggy,
> > > currently we only have DMI.
> > > Any others?
> > We could use the exception mechanism, and try to fix up any BIOS errors.
> > That would require:
>
> [...] It would not work for x86-64 unfortunately where you cannot do
> any BIOS calls after the system is running (it would only be possible
> early in boot)

Why on earth would you want to call PNPBIOS on AMD64 anyway ?

Dave

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