Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Jan 2004 05:55:57 +0000 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: PCI memory allocation bug with CONFIG_HIGHMEM |
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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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