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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 3] Low memory corruption detection and workaround
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 04:44:49 +1000
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On Tuesday 09 September 2008 02:47, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Nick Piggin wrote:
> > Why not high memory as well? We put page tables there too...
>
> Well, the specific problem is that the BIOS appears to corrupt low
> memory.  It might corrupt other memory anywhere, but that would be
> pretty pathologically evil.  The assumption is that it gets away with it
> because its memory that Windows doesn't otherwise use or something.

OK, fine, sorry I didn't follow the thread back.