* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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?
hm ... which portion does this? I'm looking at fixnx2.patch. I
definitely saw a APM bootup crash due to this, but that was on a 2.4-ish
backport of the patch.
Ingo
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