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SubjectRE: page allocation/attributes question (i386/x86_64 specific)
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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?

Thanks
Stuart
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