Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:54:21 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: security: delete BIOS password in keyboard buffer during kernel bootup |
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> OTOH we don't call BIOS from linux, so we assume that low 64K is > usable memory (unless marked otherwise in memmap, I guess).
We use the BIOS in some cases for PCI routing, PCI services, APM, and indirectly for SMM traps, ACPI and via user space for other stuff. So we preserve the bottom 4K for the BIOS 0x40:xx page > > Anyway, proper place to do clearing is bootloader; it interacts with > bios already, anyway...
Agreed entirely.
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