Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86/setup: always reserve the first 1M of RAM
From: Mike Rapoport
Date: Thu Jul 01 2021 - 15:46:06 EST
On Thu, Jul 01, 2021 at 10:15:29AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 6/1/21 12:53 AM, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > There are BIOSes that are known to corrupt the memory under 1M, or more
> > precisely under 640K because the memory above 640K is anyway reserved for
> > the EGA/VGA frame buffer and BIOS.
>
> Should there have been a Cc: stable@ on this?
>
> Seems like the kind of thing we'd want backported.
The commit this patch is fixing (a799c2bd29d1) went to v5.13-rc1, so there
is no need to backport it.
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Sincerely yours,
Mike.