Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 8 Jun 2010 22:56:56 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: Windows side agrees that lowmem corruption is a problem too |
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> > I agree that dis-using <1M by default is probably the sanest option. > > But please limit it to newer systems only (DMI present && year > 200?). There > are many old machines running fine. Losing 1MB from 16MB is a bad thing.
Losing the low 1MB is bad thing anyway for things like firmware flashing and other weird crap that needs low pages (floppy controllers etc).
Losing 64K (but reporting corruption in it in a big scary way) is probably sensible for distributions, but its a config item so its policy so that wouldn't be a problem.
It has to be painful to the vendors so they get complaints, reports and support call costs. Otherwise they won't have the correct incentives to fix their mess.
Alan
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