Re: [PATCH] (i386) using int15/E820 to get the sys memory map

Cyrille Chepelov (chepelov_c@crans.ens-cachan.fr)
Wed, 11 Nov 1998 06:30:35 +0100 (CET)


On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Paul Wouters wrote:

> > Though I have experimented no problems (with vgacon and vesafb), there was
> > some argument buffer magic in arch/i386/kernel/head.S I did not
> > fully understand, but I nonetheless deleted as it was in my way.

> That policy is uhm, interesting :)

Well, I wouldn't have deleted that if it wasn't overwriting my data.
I'll follow Colin Plumb's advice for the next version and move my buffer
up in the 4Kb shared zone (that'll leave 768 bytes for command line
magic).

-- Cyrille

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