Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:08:35 -0300 | From | "Glauber de Oliveira Costa" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 23/25] [PATCH] paravirt hooks for arch initialization |
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On 8/9/07, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > > What's the EBDA actually used for? The only place which seems to use > > ebda_addr is in the e820 code to avoid that area as RAM. > > It belongs to the firmware.
Wouldn't it be better, then, to just skip this step unconditionally if we are running a paravirtualized guest? What do we from doing it?
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