Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: page allocation/attributes question (i386/x86_64 specific) | Date | Wed, 20 Jul 2005 09:51:05 -0500 | From | <> |
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Ingo Molnar wrote: > there's one problem with the patch: it breaks things that need the > low 1MB executable (e.g. APM bios32 calls). It would at a minimum be > needed to exclude the BIOS area in 0xd0000-0xfffff. > > Ingo
I wrote it to make everything below 1MB executable, if it isn't RAM according to the e820 map, which should include the BIOS area. This includes 0xd0000-0xffff on my system. Do you think I should explicity make 0xd0000-0xfffff executable regardless of the e820 map?
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