Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:03:55 -0700 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: [tip:x86/setup] x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS calls -- infrastructure |
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H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Ingo Molnar wrote: > >> ... looks like an x86 descriptor table. Does the pattern below make >> any sense to anyone? I've attached the relevant bits of one of the >> reports below. >> >> > > It's weird... it's clearly not random, but the pattern is shifting all > over the place. Almost makes me want to guess some kind of bitmask (the > 0xaaaaaa00 bit and the stretches of 00 and ff kind of hint that way) but > even then it doesn't really seem to make a whole lot of sense. Perhaps > it's a data segment of some code which is barfing on memory. > > 960 bytes at 0xc000 (48K)... almost makes one wonder if someone confused > address 0xc000 with segment 0xc000 (the VGA BIOS)... >
(I wonder if its a bunch of super-secret HDMI crypto keys ;)
J
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