Re: PCI memory allocation bug with CONFIG_HIGHMEM

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 06:02:56AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
 > > > 5.) Look into other ways of finding out if the PnPBIOS might be buggy,
 > > > currently we only have DMI.
 > > > Any others?
 > > We could use the exception mechanism, and try to fix up any BIOS errors. 
 > > That would require:
 > 
 > [...] It would not work for x86-64 unfortunately where you cannot do 
 > any BIOS calls after the system is running (it would only be possible
 > early in boot) 

Why on earth would you want to call PNPBIOS on AMD64 anyway ?

		Dave

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