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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Stuart Hayes <Stuart_Hayes@dell.com>
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Subject: Re: page allocation/attributes question (i386/x86_64 specific)
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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